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Title: Association educational work for men and boys;
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Young men's Christian associations. International committee. Educational dept. (from old catalog) Hodge, George B. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Education
Publisher: New York (etc.) Association press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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so-ciation to serve. Social service in behalf of social welfaremay be promoted directly by the Association or an Asso-ciation group. Thus an Association would seek to servethe community which it represents as well as its members. c. Forms of service Association educational work as a whole, with its increas-ing variety of activities, its altruistic objective, its specialemphasis on pioneer service, its aid and stimulation to othereducational efforts, all make it a most practical form ofChristian social service. But there are some added formsof social service, closely related to the Association as asupplemental educational agency: (1) To establish, or improve public educational facili-ties for industrial training, citizenship and moral instruction,vocational guidance, and continuation schools. (2) To cooperate with schools, libraries, parents, em-ployers, truant officers and others to keep boys in school.This is an attempt to prevent a most serious evil, ratherthan try to cure it later.
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B(_)vs SuMMKK School Classes—Buffalo, N. Y. SOCIAL SERVICE 241 (3) To promote instruction in English, civics, geography,thrift, and North American history to non-Enghsh speak-ing men and boys. (4) To promote, in cooperation with physical depart-ments and health boards, instruction in personal and publichygiene, sex problems, tuberculosis prevention, and allmatters of public and private health. (5) To encourage all good efforts to (a) secure puremilk, pure food and water; (b) provide sanitary streets,markets and public conditions ; (c) encourage better housingconditions and public improvements of all kinds. (6) To promote exhibits in the interests of labor-savingand life-saving devices, of child welfare interests, of indus-trial processes and products, or of business and industrialefficiency. (7) To encourage other public and quasi-public serviceinstitutions, such as public lecture courses, Chautauquaextension, educational moving pictures, public playgrounds,recreational and educatio

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