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Excerpt from The Denver Tramway Strike of 1920: Report of an Investigation Made Under the Auspices of the Denver Commission of Religious Forces, the Commission on the Church and Social Service of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in AmericaWhen the investigation was completed, the report was reviewed, and an oral summary of the findings was pre sented to a third meeting of churchmen at the Albany Hotel, on Saturday, November 27, wh...

Excerpt from The Family and Social WorkThus we are face to face at once with a great issue. Within it lies the fundamental religious problem of our time. It is not a trivial ques.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the ...

Excerpt from Charities, Vol. 9: A Weekly Review of Local and General Philanthropy, July-December, 1902Work. Technical Education, Prof. Morris Loeb of New York. Discussion opened by Miss Golda Bamber of Boston and the Rev. A. R. Levy of Chicago.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Boo...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Social ForcesAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a b...

Excerpt from Charities, Vol. 10: A Weekly Review of Local and General Philanthropy, March 7, 1903The class Visits representative chari table and correctional institutions in Bos ton and the Vicinity, and each member makes a personal study of some one of them, upon which he sub mits a written report. There is in this department, wrote the instructor to Dr. Brackett, 'a new opportunity in university instruction. With us it has been quite without...

Excerpt from Social WorkThe aim of this volume, and of the series in which it appears, is to make clearer the relation between every-day, sometimes discouraging efforts to help others and those larger social movements in industry, education, and other departments of life and thought to which they are essentially related. There is inspira tion for the familiar, manageable even if difficult task in the idea that its full meaning is to be found i...

Excerpt from Efficiency and Relief: A Programme of Social WorkA great German said not long ago that it was the glory of the universities of his land to stand az's-ce-vz's with the nation He spoke truly. Those universities, and those alone, are genuinely national that look the problems of to-day straight in the face and bring to their solution wisdom, sanity, , and. Courage. That nation lacks something of the highest. Civilization that does not...

Excerpt from Charities and the Commons, Vol. 15: February 3, 1906My interest in the question of the adult blind is neither sentimental nor patho logical, but simply sociological. I might tell you of old men and women in pitiable plight, but they are often over eighty years old and would be nearly as badly oii with their sight, again of a graduate of a school for the blind who may have been a¿orded the utmost advantages the school can give and ...

Excerpt from Charities, Vol. 6: A Weekly Review of Local and General Philanthropy, January-June, 1901, With IndexBefore closing I would like to speak brie¿y of two of the cases which have greatly interested me, and in which I have positive proof of good results: L K th street, a young woman aged twenty-eight, complete paralysis of the left side, destitute, without any means of sup port, depending on her friends for food. After some persuasion ...

Excerpt from Charities, Vol. 6: A Weekly Review of Local and General Philanthropy, January-June, 1901, With IndexBefore closing I would like to speak brie¿y of two of the cases which have greatly interested me, and in which I have positive proof of good results: L K th street, a young woman aged twenty-eight, complete paralysis of the left side, destitute, without any means of sup port, depending on her friends for food. After some persuasion ...

Excerpt from Misery and Its CausesProfessor devine's Misery and its Causes, like Professor Patten's New Basis of Civilization, with which this series began, attempts to articulate a new social philosophy, pragmatic, economic, and socially adaptable to the existing conditions of American life. Both volumes contain in substance the Kennedy lec tures for the year of their respective publication, as pre pared for the School of Philanthropy on a fo...

Excerpt from Report on the Desirability of Establishing an Employment Bureau in the City of New YorkThe proposition is to organize in the City of New York an Em ployment Bureau under a board of trustees composed of experienced men, preferentially from the mercantile and industrial classes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction ...

Excerpt from The Principles of ReliefThe class of social debtors is not recruited from any one occupation, or from any one economic or social group. The learned professions, the mercantile and clerical voca tions, artisans skilled and unskilled, contribute each their fair quota of those who for a longer or shorter period are dependent upon public or private relief. Religion, race, nationality, and color require in the recoids of charitable soc...

Excerpt from Disabled Soldiers and Sailors, Pensions and TrainingAt the moment in the history of civilization when the economic usefulness of the individual worker has been carried to the high est point of progress in the arts and sciences, by the organiza tion of industry and by the accumulation of capital, a world war has suddenly exposed to the risk of disablement a wholly un precedented number of the world's workers. Never before have so m...

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About the Book Books that contain College Guides provide information to prospective students about courses, staff and facilities at colleges and universities. Titles include: 1861-1892, Fifth Report Harvard College Class of 1861, A history of the Cambridge university press 1521-1921, A visit to some American schools and colleges, American Colleges: Their Students and Work, Balliol College, Edinburgh University, A Sketch of Its Life for 300 Yea...