Boy Scout

Orig a member of the ldquoBoy Scoutsrdquo an organization of boys founded in 1908 by Sir R S S Baden Powell to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others by stimulating their interest in wholesome mental moral industrial and physical activities etc Hence a member of any of the other similar organizations which are now worldwide In ldquoThe Boy Scouts of Americardquo the local councils are generally under a scout commissioner under whose supervision are scout masters each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each who are of three classes tenderfoot second class scout and first class scout