Children Today, Volumes 5-6The Bureau, 1976 |
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Page 5 - I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Page 12 - ... and towards whom the excess of dependence inspires their mean and savage natures, not with a generous forbearance, and a point of honour to behave well to one whose lot in life is trusted entirely to their kindness, but on the contrary with a notion that the law has delivered her to them as their thing, to be used at their pleasure, and that they are not expected to practise the consideration towards her which is required from them towards everybody else.
Page 10 - A token for children, being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary lives and joyful deaths of several young children.
Page 10 - Or, Some Examples of Children, in whom the Fear of God was Remarkably Budding before they Died; in several Parts of New England.
Page 20 - A recipient shall not discriminate against any student, or exclude any student from its education program or activity, including any class or extracurricular activity, on the basis of such student's pregnancy, childbirth, false pregnancy, termination of pregnancy...
Page 17 - ... themselves and the public; or if there be any family that cannot, or do[es] not provide competently for their children, whereby they are exposed to want and extremity...
Page 43 - What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Page 27 - Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...