Education
Edgar M. Robinson attended college in New Brunswick, Canada. While working for the in Massachusetts he attended the Training School, now Springfield College.
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Career
He is notable for his significant efforts in helping to establish the (Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture). There he first became associated with the serving as chairman of the Boys" Work Committee and later developing their first camping program In 1898, he was hired as the Boys" Work Secretary by the Massachusetts-Rhode Island State Committee.
Robinson was appointed the Boys" Work Secretary of the International Committee in 1900.
According to one history, "at the time, there were twenty Boys" Work Secretaries and 30,000 boys as members nationwide. During the years 1908 and 1909, Scout troops were starting almost sponteneously in locations across the United States, before the Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture existed, but following the publication of Scouting for Boys by Sir Robert Baden-Powell.
A handful of centers were hosting troops, so Edgar Robinson had an interest in helping the Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture get off the ground so that his organization and others would have American-based resources for troop leaders. In April 1910, Edgar Robinson persuaded William Doctorate. Boyce to appoint him managing director of the Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture for a limited time period, during which time Robinson secured a number of leading citizens to join together to form the Executive Board of the Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture. He then relinquished his role in Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture affairs, with the executive role eventually going to the newly recruited James East. West.
Robinson remained "the preeminent figure in boys" work until his retirement in 1927." In 2000 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame at Springfield College.
