Annual Report of the State Board of Charities and Reform of the State of Wisconsin

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Página 181 - Special meetings may be held at such other times and places as the Board or the President shall determine.
Página 28 - State, whether such law shall apply to the whole State, or to any special county thereof within which said person shall be convicted, to the district workhouse of the judicial district in which such conviction shall take place, for a term not less than ninety days or more than six months on the first conviction, and for a term not less than six months or more than one year on a second or subsequent conviction.
Página 67 - These were arranged in 9 classes or grades, each under the care of a teacher, while a tenth teacher gave instruction wholly by articulation to 7 pupils, and also taught articulation for a portion of each day to 20 others, all semi-mutes. The brunches taught are the English language, arithmetic, algebra, history, and the elements of natural science.
Página 34 - Lincoln, which are approaching completion, and will be ready for occupancy at the commencement of the next school year.
Página 28 - ... shall cause a record to be kept of the name, age, birthplace, occupation, previous commitments, if any, and for what offenses ; the last place of residence of such female, and the particulars of the offense for which she is committed.
Página 34 - The education furnished by the Institution will include, not only the simpler elements of instruction usually taught in common schools, where that is practicable, but will embrace a course of training in the more practical matters of every day life; the cultivation of habits of decency, propriety, selfreliance and the development and enlargement of a capacity for useful occupation.
Página 41 - ... may be so trained and instructed as to render them useful to themselves, and fitted to learn some of the ordinary trades, or to engage in agriculture. Their minds and souls can be developed so that they may become responsible beings, acquainted with their relations to their Creator, and a future state, and their obligations to obey the laws and respect the rights of their fellow citizens.
Página 27 - Association and offered to the legislature of the state of New York at its last session, the...
Página 186 - There are at present in the United States nine state boards or commissions charged with the general oversight of charitable work in the states where they exist. These boards, named in the order of seniority, are: 1. The Massachusetts Board of State Charities, established in 1863. 2. The New York State Board of Charities, established in 1867. 3. The Ohio Board of State Charities, established in 1867 ; reorganized in 1876.
Página 177 - Female delegates to philanthropic and correctional conferences also realized that correctional work suggested the possibility of useful careers. Mrs WP Lynde told the National Conference of Charities and Correction in 1879 that children's institutions offered the 'truest and noblest scope for the public activities of women in the time which they can spare from their primary domestic duties'.

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