Social Service: A Review of Social and Industrial Betterment, Volumes 8-9League for Social Service., 1903 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
287 FOURTH AVENUE accidents American Institute Association baths Berlin BETTER NEW YORK boys building Bureau cents Charity church classes club co-operation co-operative Collaborators Committee Company Department Director Dunfermline employees Exposition factory France garden George Cadbury girls give given Graham Taylor Horace McFarland Hospital Industrial Betterment Industrialist Institute of Social interest Italian Japan John JOSIAH STRONG Jules Siegfried Kitchen Kotaro Shimomura labor lectures lives London London County Council Louis lunch room luncheon Max Richter ment Milan Minelli Miss movement Musee Social Museum of Security organized Paris Park President Richard Watson Gilder Rome Former Russia Secretary sent SERVICE 287 FOURTH Service PUBLISHED MONTHLY Sir Horace Plunkett Social and Industrial SOCIAL SERVICE 287 Society Sociological Spencer Trask Street summer Tenement tion to-day TOLMAN Vacation Schools Vice-President Warner Van Norden William H Williams Talcott women young
Popular passages
Page 55 - This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of Wealth: to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results...
Page 43 - ... to bring into the monotonous lives of the toiling masses of Dunfermline more of sweetness and light; to give to them — especially the young — some charm, some happiness, some elevating conditions of life which residence elsewhere would have denied; that the child of my native town, looking back in after years, however far from home it may have roamed, will feel that simply by virtue of being such, life has been made happier and better.
Page 79 - This Institute is fitted to render a great and peculiar service, not merely to this country, but to all countries. Apparently it is proving to be the beginning of a world movement, and is being recognized by the best men of many different countries as a necessity in each and all of these countries in order to facilitate the readjustment of social relations to the new conditions created by the modern industrial revolution.
Page 19 - Forever that the world's not paradise. 0 cousin. let us be content, in work, To do the thing we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.
Page 63 - ... ably seconded by the capable and intelligent Governor of the city, Ye Cha Yun, who had acquainted himself with the working of municipal affairs in Washington, and who with a rare modesty refused to take any credit to himself for the city improvements, saying that it was all due to Mr. M'Leavy Brown. Old Seoul, with its festering alleys, its winter accumulations of every species of filth, its ankle-deep mud and its foulness, which lacked the redeeming element of picturesqueness, is being fast...
Page 2 - Harper, Howard C. Heinz, Charles R. Henderson, Archer M. Huntington, JW Jenks, BF Johnson, George W. Jones, David S. Jordan, Herman Justi, John La Farge, Frank Leake, Hamilton W Mabie, J.
Page 76 - The process of readjustment is one of experiment. Each experiment, whether successful or otherwise, throws a ray of light on the problem of how to do it or how not to do it.
Page 76 - Experience signifies nothing unless we trace the relations of cause and effect. The science of statistics, by which facts are so gathered as to embody truth and so interpreted as to afford knowledge, is. of recent origin. It is a singular fact that our young republic was the first government in the world to take a census at stated intervals. Ships of state kept no logbooks. It is small wonder that so many split on the same rocks. Important as it is in social and political science to know precisely...