Bibliographic record
Abstract
Chapter 5"THE MASS ORNAMENT" Rallies, Pageantry, Exercise, and Drill While teaching modern girls about camping, domesticity, and the duties of citizenship, the global Guide movement also encouraged its young members to display their skills in public.Mass public performances by Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, often called rallies or displays, were staged regularly by the leaders of both movements in England, Canada, India, and beyond throughout the interwar years.In amphitheatres and stadiums and on the grounds of governor's estates, anywhere from dozens to thousands of young people took part in public performances that included historical pageantry, physical exercise, and drill."Impressive demonstration [s]," according to one Ottawa reporter, "of the work in which the Girl Guides, Brownies, and Rangers are engaged," these events were visually striking and carefully choreographed spectacles. 1 Favourite subjects of photojournalists and newsreel services across the British Empire and the world, rallies are also reminders that Guiding was an exercise in mass production -an adult-led attempt to standardize young bodies and characters within and across national and imperial boundaries.Like many other aspects of the movement, interwar Guide rallies combined conservative and progressive messages about bodies, gender, race, class, nation, and empire.As historical pageantry, they supported class-and race-based hierarchies while allowing girls to act out heroic and sometimes masculine roles in public.As public demonstrations of physical culture, they celebrated the fit and docile bodies of good Guide citizens, echoed Edwardian concerns about national efficiency and racial fitness, and reflected the interwar popularity
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.023 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".