Both good and bad changes perhaps. Requiring a boy to know how to stop a run away horse is obsolete. But ome of the sections on citizenship, written in part by Teddy Roosevelt, and chivelry seem dataed in language, but the content is still viable.<br><br>Obviously, the technology and knowledge we've gained since 1911 has changed dramatically. But there's also a subtle change in society as well. At that time, even a scout in the city was not that far away from rural and undeveloped areas. And there still was the great untamed west and cowboys. <br><br>I don't want to say "better" or "worse." just different times. Remember, perhaps the current version of the handbook will be reflected upon fondly a hundred years from now, "when life was simple."