Proceedings: Selected Papers [of The] Annual Meeting, Volume 11National Conference on Social Welfare, 1884 - Charities |
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agent almshouses asylum average number benevolent better Board of Charities boys building census cent Charities and Correction charity organization society child chronic insane churches committed committee condition Conference convicts cost crime criminal dollars duty employment established evil expense F. B. Sanborn feeble-minded girls give H. M. Green hospitals House of Refuge Howard Association hundred idiotic imbecile increase Industrial School inmates insane person institutions instruction jails kopecks labor large number legislature Letchworth Louis Massachusetts ment Missouri moral mother offences officers Ohio orphan out-door parents patients paupers pawnbroker penitentiary police poor poorhouses population present President prison pupils question received Reform School reformatories relief relief society Secretary secure sent SONNESCHEIN superintendent supervision tion visited visitors Watonwan County Wisconsin woman women workhouse York
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Page 217 - It is not to be inferred from what has been said that the local assessors discover all intangible property subject to taxation, and list it at its true value.
Page 300 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Page 6 - Crime cannot be hindered by punishment ; it will always find some shape and outlet, unpunishable or unclosed. Crime can only be truly hindered by letting no man grow up a criminal — by taking away the will to commit sin ; not by mere punishment of its commission. Crime, small and great, can only be truly stayed by education — not the education of the intellect only, which is, on some men, wasted, and for others mischievous ; but education of the heart, which is alike good and necessary for all.
Page 349 - ... by the parent, guardian or next friend of such infant, that by reason of incorrigible or vicious conduct such infant has rendered his or her control beyond the power of such parent, guardian or next friend, and made it manifestly requisite that from regard for the morals and future welfare of such infant, he or she should be placed under the guardianship of the managers of the House of Refuge.
Page 260 - ... antagonized experts and lawyers, puzzled philanthropists, and in every possible manner retaliated on their progenitors for their origin and on the community for their misapprehension?
Page 289 - I mean the due regulation and domestic order of the kingdom, whereby the individuals of the state, like members of a well-governed family, are bound to conform their general behavior to the rules of propriety. good neighborhood and good manners, and to be decent, industrious and inoffensive in their respective stations.
Page 116 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, 20 And we mount to its summit, round by round.
Page 223 - Whatever we wish to see introduced into the life of a nation must first be introduced into its schools.
Page 289 - A friend of mine," said Erskine, " was suffering from a continual wakefulness; and various methods were tried to send him to sleep, but in vain. At last his physicians resorted to an experiment which succeeded perfectly: they dressed him in a watchman's coat, put a lantern into his hand, placed him in a sentry-box, and — he was asleep in ten minutes.
Page 42 - School for the Blind, and the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb are supported by appropriations made from year to year for current expenses, as well as for special purposes.