The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting

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National Conference on Social Welfare, 1921

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Página 37 - Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets'.
Página 51 - Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Página 132 - For the rational study of the law the black-letter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.
Página 132 - It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation of the past.
Página 148 - Conference of state and Provincial Health Authorities of North America, Council on Health and Public Instruction of the American Medical Association, National Child Health Council...
Página 132 - Still it is true that a body of law is more rational and more civilized when every rule it contains is referred articulately and definitely to an end which it subserves, and when the grounds for desiring that end are stated or are ready to be stated in words.
Página 186 - I cleaned my finger-nails to-day. 3. I kept fingers, pencils and everything likely to be unclean or injurious out of my mouth and nose to-day.
Página 441 - Nine-tenths of the American towns are so alike that it is the completest boredom to wander from one to another.
Página 132 - What have we better than a blind guess to show that the criminal law in its present form does more good than harm? I do not stop to refer to the effect which it has had in degrading prisoners and in plunging them further into crime, or to the question whether fine and imprisonment do not fall more heavily on a criminal's wife and children than on himself. I have in mind more far-reaching questions. Does punishment deter? Do we deal with criminals on proper principles?
Página 470 - Board shall fix. They shall choose from their number, by majority vote, a president, a vice president, a secretary and a treasurer. They are further authorized and empowered to employ such attorneys, experts, assistants, clerks, laborers, and other employees as they may deem necessary, and to fix their compensation, subject to the approval of the Federal Farm Loan Board.

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