Requirements June 1920 until August 1922

After sixty days’ service a second class scout, a scout may, upon passing the following test to the satisfaction of the local scout authorities, be enrolled as a first-class scout and entitled to wear the first class badge of the Boy Scouts of America:

1. Swim 50 yards.

2. Send and receive a message by Semaphore, including conventional signs, thirty letters per minute, or by the General Service Code (International Morris), sixteen letters per minute, including conventional signs.

3. Make a round-trip alone (or with another scout) to a point of at least seven miles away (fourteen miles in all), going on foot or rowing boat, and write a satisfactory account of the trip and things observed.

4. Advanced first aid; know the methods for panic prevention; what to do in case of fire, ice, electric, and gas accidents; how to help in case of runaway horse, mad dog, or snake bite; treatment for dislocations, unconsciousness, poisoning, fainting, apoplexy, sunstroke, heat exhaustion, and freezing; know treatment for sunburn, ivy poisoning, bites and stings, nosebleed, earache, toothache, inflammation or grit in the eye, cramp or stomach ache, and chills; demonstrate artificial respiration.

5. Prepare and cook satisfactorily in the open, using camp cooking utensils, two of the following articles as may be directed: Eggs, bacon, hunter’s stew, fish, fowl, game, pancakes, hoe-cakes, biscuit, hardtack or a “twist”, baked on a stick; explain to another boy the methods followed.

6. Read a map correctly, and draw, from field notes made on the spot and intelligible rough sketch map, including by their proper marks important buildings, roads, trolley lines, main landmarks, principal elevations, etc. Point out a compass direction without the help of the compass.

7. Use properly and ax for felling or trimming light timber; or produce an article of carpentry, cabinet-making, or metal work made by himself. Explain the method followed.

8. Judge distance, size, number, height, and weight within 25%.

9. Describe fully from observation ten species of trees or plants, including poison ivy, by their bark, leaves, flowers, fruit, or scent; or six species of wild birds by their plumage, notes, tracks or habits; or six species of native wild animals by their form, color, call, tracks, or habits; find the North Star, and name and describe at least three constellations of stars.

10. Furnish satisfactory evidence that he has put into practice in his daily life the principles of the Scout Oath and Law.

11. Enlist a boy he trained by himself and the requirements of a tenderfoot.