Word: children
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...delegates at the recent National Peace and Arbitration Conference, held in New York City, last week. While there he spoke before the Society for Ethical Culture on "Peace Movement," and delivered addresses before the peace meetings in the Broadway Tabernacle, the Labor Meeting at the Cooper Union, and the Children's Meeting in Carnegle Hall...
...workers in Cambridge will be held in Phillips Brooks House on Tuesday, April 16, at 4 o'clock, under the auspices of the Cambridge Associated Charities. Mr. C. C. Carstens of New York, who has recently been appointed secretary of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Children, will speak on the plans and method of the society in dealing with cases. Mr. Carstens has until lately been connected with the Charity Organization Society of New York and is a well-known worker in charity movements. Dean Hodges of the Episcopal Theological Seminary will preside, and various charity...
...workers in Cambridge will be held in Phillips Brooks House on Tuesday, April 16, at 4 o'clock, under the auspices of the Cambridge Associated Charities. Mr. C. C. Carstens of New York, who has recently been appointed secretary of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, will speak on the plans and methods of the society in dealing with cases. Mr. Carstens has until lately been connected with the Charity Organization Society of New York, and is a well-known worker in charity movements. Dean Hodges of the Episcopal Theological Seminary will probably preside, and various...
...second great evil that the investigating committee found in the slums was the environment in which the children were raised, which it described as containing all the influences that tend toward unrighteousness and corruption. Much of the best work that has been done in New York to offset this environment has been accomplished by means of new school-houses, recreation centres, and open playgrounds. In the last few years $80,000,000 has been spent by the School Committee of New York in this work...
...most important features of social work has been the establishment of classes and boys' clubs, as well as manual-training and cooking classes. These classes teach the children reliance and give them a chance to assert their own individuality, and to express their own ideas, the lack of which is a strong factor in their moral degradation. If the children can be educated by means of beautiful schools and open parks, half the battle will...