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...We live not by bread alone, we live by freedom...
...Preyer was perhaps the first to carry the methods of science into the very nursery: "I have kept a daily record of my son's development from birth to the end of the third year...
...Legislation for Women and Children in Industry...
...If people deliberately choose disease, suffering, misery, and death, rather than health, joy, and life," he argued, "then it is a clear case of ignorance at the root of it all—this world muddle of ours...
...Kellogg advocates that no immigrant be allowed to work for less than a living wage until he has been in this country five years and has been naturalized...
...The visitor asked her how she could bear such suffering, not for herself, but for her children...
...We felt guilty lest we had kept Mrs...
...Wellesley's New President MISS ELLEN PENDLETON, who for ten years has been dean of Wellesley College and who has been connected with the college continuously since her graduation in 1886, was recently elected president to succeed Miss Caroline Hazard...
...THE MEETING on Tuesday morning, June 9, with addresses by Mrs...
...He had refused, and his wife had rejoiced in the refusal...
...The Woman's Journal...
...Robins was particularly strong in the very animated discussion which followed...
...and I will fight for it till I die, to give it to my children...
...To Hall belongs pre-eminently the credit of having made child study as wide as the world of child-life: out of the nursery into the family, from home to school and playground, and into adult society and business, he has taught us to follow the child...
...With a steady, quiet look in her patient eyes, the mother answered, "It is not only bread we give the children...
...Charities and Correction THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE of Charities and Correction met this year in Boston for the first time since 1881...
...the Road to Social Efficiency," which was published in La Follette's for June 10...
...Raymond Robins and Miss Josephine Goldmark, was also of unusual interest...
...I can just hear him saying to them, as he said to us in a spirit of faith and inspiration that promises a new era for humanity, "Our problem is before us to discover, to dig out the truth as fast as we can, and to give it to the people to use, to help them in their lives, to live...
...Standards of Laving and Wages...
...Mr...
...Robins spoke on "Standards of Payment for Women and Girls," setting forth the higher ideal of the trade union movement, which is "to set free the human spirit in the worker...
...Judge Julian W. Mack, of the Commerce Court, was elected president for the coming year...
...Our laboratories, even our biological laboratories, are horribly stuffy, procrustean and dead...
...Edward T. Devine, in an important address, suggested "a sixteenth amendment to the constitution, providing that Congress shall have power to determine the condition of the wage contract with a view to health and safety, to regulate or prohibit the employment of children in any industry, to protect workers by suitable legislation in such employments as are dangerous and to make provision for compensation by insurance or otherwise to persons injured by accidents...
...And the surprise to him was all on the other side,—"the wonderful transformation a spark of truth can effect in a life knowledge that makes truer and higher response possible...
...Students come to me dead, with 'what shall we do?' Somehow or other," he said, his eyes twinkling again, "I can send them away alive, and tingling with problems and ways of thinking which will keep them busy the rest of their lives...
...Drunkenness...
...Cleveland was selected as the next meeting place...
...Brandeis gave the address on "Workingmen's Insurance...
...Of the large general meetings, that which attracted most attention was the one held on June 8 and presided over by Mrs...
...Florence Kelly of the National Consumers' League...
...Hodge waiting the evening...
...humorous twinkle in his eye that keeps him from being too serious, and gives him that balanced wit and judgment which takes deep hold of his students, and of all who come within the influence of this remarkable man...
...The University of Washington...
...Those who were especially interested, however, met in one of the halls and received the "Black-and-blue" Cross nurses, and thanked them for the services they had expected to render...
...Sex Hygiene...
...Homer Folks of New York, compared the present organization of the Conference and its aims and purposes with those of thirty years ago...
...It was seven o'clock when we took the trolley from Worcester to Boston...
...and many others...
...HONE CAN HARDLY refrain here from noting with grateful appreciation two names from the cores of those who have led the new science: Preyer the German Physiologist, and Stanley Hall, the American philosopher and psychophysicist...
...But I suspect she is not unused to it...
...As Pestalozzi and Froebel discovered childhood, Hall discovered youth, and perceived that, as infancy is the childhood of the body, so adolescence is the childhood of the spirit, and, hence, of quite unique import for moral education.—Edward O. Sisson...
...MARGARET DREIER ROBINS, in her address at the National Conference of Charities and Correction, told a remarkable incident of the great strike among the Garment workers fin Chicago...
...A visitor, going into one of the homes, found a mother in bed with a new-born baby and surrounded by three other children of three, four, and five years old...
...There was neither food nor fuel, and it was a bitter winter's day...
...On the mother's bed were three letters from her husband's employer, offering to raise his pay from $15 to $30 per week if he would come back, and help break the strike...
...There were also speeches by Miss Jane Addams on "Standards of Education for Industrial Life," and by Paul Kellogg on "Immigration...
...Then the society worked through six sections, five of which dealt with institutions and one with immigration...
...The topics discussed were— Housing reform...
...The study of life in them is too much the pawing over of corpses,—attention to dead forms and dead structures...
...There was a dramatic moment when she said in answer to a question from a manufacturer in the audience, "If any industry cannot pay a living wage, it is parasitic and has no right to exist...
...The other five considered the social conditions which make institutional life necessary...
...nothing that concerns childhood can lack interest...
...Mental Defects and Delinquency...
...The Women's Trade Union League and other sympathizers tried to supply all these little non-combatants with milk...
...It was on this evening that Mr...
...This year there were nine sections, only four of which dealt with institutions...
...The announcement as made at chapel exercises on June 9, and was received with the greatest enthusiasm...
...A Brave Mother MRS...
...During the course of it twelve hundred and fifty babies were born to the strikers...
...The ball game which was to have enlivened the sessions had to be abandoned because of a heavy rain...
...Mrs...
...We had seen the fly-trap factory and we had interviewed one of the greatest teachers, investigators and benefactors of our time...
...And the sun rises on a new world every day...
...On the opening night, that of June 7, the president, Mr...
...The strike lasted for months and caused great suffering...

Vol. 3 • July 1911 • No. 26


 
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