Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Ideal Scout, also known as The Boy Scout is the most famous statue by R. Tait McKenzie. The original sits in front of the Cradle of Liberty Council at 22nd Street and Winter Street in Philadelphia. It has been reproduced and sits in front of many U.S. Boy Scout offices across the nation, as well as at Gilwell Park and in Australia. The Smithsonian American Art Museum's database lists 18 copies.McKenzie sat on the executive board of the Boy Scouts organization in Philadelphia for more than 20 years. Asked to produce a figure of "an ideal scout," the sculptor chose several young scouts to model in uniform. In 1915, he gave the executive board an 18-inch bronze figure, together with rights to the royalties resulting from sales of copies. He said that the boy's uncovered head denoted reverence, obedience to authority, and discipline. The hatchet held by the scout is a symbol of truthfulness and the hope it would never be unsheathed for wanton destruction, but "applied unceasingly to the neck of treachery, treason, cowardice, discourtesy, dishonesty, and dirt.". }
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- The_Ideal_Scout abstract "The Ideal Scout, also known as The Boy Scout is the most famous statue by R. Tait McKenzie. The original sits in front of the Cradle of Liberty Council at 22nd Street and Winter Street in Philadelphia. It has been reproduced and sits in front of many U.S. Boy Scout offices across the nation, as well as at Gilwell Park and in Australia. The Smithsonian American Art Museum's database lists 18 copies.McKenzie sat on the executive board of the Boy Scouts organization in Philadelphia for more than 20 years. Asked to produce a figure of "an ideal scout," the sculptor chose several young scouts to model in uniform. In 1915, he gave the executive board an 18-inch bronze figure, together with rights to the royalties resulting from sales of copies. He said that the boy's uncovered head denoted reverence, obedience to authority, and discipline. The hatchet held by the scout is a symbol of truthfulness and the hope it would never be unsheathed for wanton destruction, but "applied unceasingly to the neck of treachery, treason, cowardice, discourtesy, dishonesty, and dirt."".