Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the ... Annual Session Held in ..., Issue 24Press of Geo. H. Ellis, 1898 - Charities |
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... receiving invitations from States , cities , or towns , and shall prepare a report which shall be presented to the Conference on the following morning . The vote on the report of the committee shall be taken by ballot , and every member ...
... receiving invitations from States , cities , or towns , and shall prepare a report which shall be presented to the Conference on the following morning . The vote on the report of the committee shall be taken by ballot , and every member ...
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... received deserved attention last year , does not appear upon our program now . This must not be construed to mean that the Conference is indifferent to this great reform , or that we can afford to cease urging it upon every possible ...
... received deserved attention last year , does not appear upon our program now . This must not be construed to mean that the Conference is indifferent to this great reform , or that we can afford to cease urging it upon every possible ...
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... experience . But the reasons urged for this beneficent extension of the pension roll have received a strong confirmation in the observations of the celebrated German alienist , Max Nordau . We quote from SOLDIERS ' AND SAILORS ' HOMES 15.
... experience . But the reasons urged for this beneficent extension of the pension roll have received a strong confirmation in the observations of the celebrated German alienist , Max Nordau . We quote from SOLDIERS ' AND SAILORS ' HOMES 15.
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... received an honorable discharge . As the administration of the State homes is for the most part sub- stantially the same , I will use the Ohio home mainly for illustra- tion . The State homes are not large institutions . The largest has ...
... received an honorable discharge . As the administration of the State homes is for the most part sub- stantially the same , I will use the Ohio home mainly for illustra- tion . The State homes are not large institutions . The largest has ...
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... receiving more lenient treatment at the hands of men from motives of gallantry , but largely to a love of admiration , and conse- quent dread of the ill - opinion of others . The small percentage of female prisoners gives emphasis to ...
... receiving more lenient treatment at the hands of men from motives of gallantry , but largely to a love of admiration , and conse- quent dread of the ill - opinion of others . The small percentage of female prisoners gives emphasis to ...
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Page 155 - And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 338 - For right is right, since God is God ; And right the day must win ; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin ! FREDERIC WILLIAM FABER.
Page 13 - HE speaks not well who doth his time deplore, Naming it new and little and obscure, Ignoble and unfit for lofty deeds. All times were modern in the time of them, And this no more than others. Do thy part Here in the living day, as did the great Who made old days immortal ! So shall men, Gazing long back to this far-looming hour, Say: "Then the time when men were truly men...
Page 73 - It is wholly informal and unsystematic, the same as the objects are which one sees. It is entirely divorced from definitions, or from explanations in books. It is therefore supremely natural. It simply trains the eye and the mind to see and to comprehend the common things of life ; and the result is not directly the acquirement of science but the establishing of a living sympathy with everything that is.
Page 466 - Conference to appoint a committee of three, whose duty it shall be to report...
Page 73 - It is seeing the things which one looks at, and the drawing of proper conclusions from what one sees. Nature study is not the study of a science, as of botany, entomology, geology, and the like. That is, it takes the things at hand and endeavors to understand them, without reference to the systematic order or relationships of the objects. It is wholly informal and unsystematic, the same as the objects are which one sees.
Page 13 - Though wars grew less, their spirits met the test Of new conditions; conquering civic wrong; Saving the state anew by virtuous lives; Guarding the country's honor as their own, And their own as their country's and their sons': Defying leagued fraud with single truth; Not fearing loss; and daring to be pure.
Page 430 - ... perjury as when given against the Government. This recommendation has been formally considered and will doubtless become a law. 8th. That the bill granting forty dollars per month for the loss of one leg, or one arm, or one foot, or one hand, or for an equivalent disability, become a law. This bill has passed the House of Representatives, and is now in the Senate Committee on...
Page 96 - ... may commit the child to any incorporated charitable reformatory, or other institution, and when practicable, to such as is governed by persons of the same religious faith as the parents of the child...
Page 388 - And it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Government of the United States to make no appropriation of money or property for the purpose of founding, maintaining, or aiding by payment for services, expenses, or otherwise, any church or religious denomination, or any institution or society which is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control...