Public Documents of Massachusetts, Volume 8

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Página 90 - ... granting of the ballot to the womanhood of America and urges the Senate of the United States to pass at the present session the separate suffrage amendment to our federal Constitution. FAVORS ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY The Association favors the establishment of a national university, the creation of a national department of education under the direction of a secretary of education, and the protection of teachers in all departments of education from unwarranted dismissal by employing...
Página 51 - Every town shall provide and maintain a sufficient number of schoolhouses properly furnished and conveniently located for the accommodation of all children therein who are entitled to attend the public schools.
Página 5 - A petty tyrant in a police court, refusals of a fair hearing in minor civil courts, the impatient disregard of an immigrant's ignorance of our ways and language, will daily breed Bolshevists who are beyond the reach of your appeals.
Página 3 - FACTORIES An apparently well-founded impression prevails that foreignspeaking workmen in many factories, construction camps, etc., are compelled to make regular payments to foremen and others in order to retain their jobs. The prevailing industrial unrest, together with the difficulty of creating an understanding between employer and employee, can sometimes be traced to the fact that those coming in direct contact with the foreignborn workmen have too often, because of the indifference of the employers,...
Página 19 - Memorial library. $*2,500 from Mr. Parlin, of Danvers, this being one-half the amount necessary to purchase land adjacent to the library including a building which was sold and removed. Fitchburg. $10,000 to be expended for paintings for the art gallery of the library, by the will...
Página 37 - It marks the culmination of a process which had been going on steadily for more than a century. It marks the utmost limit to the subdivision of American sovereignty, — the high-water mark of modern democracy, and the low-water mark of the Massachusetts school system.
Página 159 - State totals for 1917-18 with the corresponding data for 1907-08, and showing the percentage of increase and decrease for a period of ten years. Statistics for State-aided vocational education are not included in the school returns, and consequently are not included in this summary. • A. — Data for the School Year ending June SO, 1918.
Página 6 - The Supreme Court of the United States and the Court of Appeals will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice.
Página 5 - We are fond of speaking of Americanization. If our Bar Associations could create a sentiment which would demand that in all our cities the police courts and minor civil courts should fairly represent the Republic as the embodiment of the spirit of justice, our problem of Americanization would be more than half solved.
Página 204 - Nantucket are exempted by law from maintaining training schools of their own, but the county commissioners of each of these counties are required to assign an established training school as a place of commitment for habitual truants, absentees, and school offenders. The places designated by the several...

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