Conference Papers1910 - Social service Selected papers from the annual meeting of the Conference. |
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Albany Asylum avenue believe Bellevue hospital benefit Board of Charities board of managers boys Brooklyn Buffalo cause cent charge Charity Organization Society child-caring classes co-operation Commission committed Committee Conference of Charities congestion conviction court criminal custodial defective dependent desertion discussion disease duty Elmira Elmira Reformatory epileptic Erie county experience extradition fact feeble-minded fraternal associations girls Hebberd homes hospital industrial infection inmates insane institutions interest large number Legislature living ment Miss NOVEMBER 18 officers Orphan paper parents parole patients penitentiaries persons poor possible predisposed present president Preventorium prisons probation problem prosecution protection Randall's Island reformatory Rochester sanatoria Schuyler county secure session sickness social Sonyea street superintendent supervision suspension of sentence things tion to-day tuberculosis tuberculous wife William WILLIAM RHINELANDER STEWART women York City York county
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Page 20 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Page 14 - ... —the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.
Page 297 - Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
Page 273 - Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Page 218 - Any corporation, society, order or voluntary association, without capital stock, organized and carried on solely for the mutual benefit of its members and their beneficiaries, and not for profit, and having a lodge system with ritualistic form of work and representative form of government, and which shall make provision for the payment of benefits in accordance with Section 5 hereof, is hereby declared to be a Fraternal Benefit Society.
Page 75 - ... years, who deserts the child in any place, with intent wholly to abandon it, is punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for not more than seven years.
Page 130 - A child of more than seven and less than sixteen years of age, who shall commit any act or omission which, if committed by an adult would be a crime not punishable by death or life imprisonment, shall not be deemed guilty of any crime, but of juvenile delinquency only...
Page 175 - ... secure accurate and reliable information with regard to the various phases of the childcaring problem. Be it further resolved, that if the Legislature cannot be induced to set aside an appropriation necessary to carry on this...
Page 303 - Chairman ex officio thereof, and shall continue to be a member of the said Committee when his term as President has expired. He shall have supervision of the work of the other officers and of the various committees in preparing for the sessions of the Conference, and shall have authority to accept resignations and to fill vacancies in the Committees on Topics of the Conference. The President, with the assistance of the Secretary, shall so supervise the editing of the proceedings of the Conference.