Youth-serving Organizations: National Nongovernmental AssociationsAmerican Council on Education, 1948 - 162 pages |
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Page 34 - Includes the National Council of Catholic Men and the National Council of Catholic Women, which maintain at NCWC headquarters permanent representations in the interests of the Catholic laity. These councils function through some 3,000 affiliated societies — National, State, diocesan, district, local, and parish ; also through units of the councils in many of the dioceses.
Page 19 - The immediate purpose of this organization shall be to unite in one body the Young Women's Christian Associations of the United States ; to establish; develop and unify such Associations ; to participate in the work of the World's Young Women's Christian Association ; to advance the physical, social, intellectual, moral and spiritual interests of young women.
Page 58 - War; to inculcate a sense of Individual obligation to the community, State, and Nation...
Page 55 - In general, to stimulate research in the mathematical, physical and biological sciences, and in the application of these sciences to engineering, agriculture, medicine and other useful arts, with the object of increasing knowledge, of strengthening the national defense, and of contiibuting in other ways to the public welfare.
Page 12 - The purpose of the group as stated in its constitution, is "to promote, through organization and cooperation with other agencies, the ability of boys to do things for themselves and others, to train them in scoutcraft, and to teach them patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred virtues, using the methods which are now in common use by Boy Scouts, by placing emphasis upon the Scout Oath and Law for character development, citizenship training, and physical fitness.
Page 97 - To develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for every child the highest advantages in physical, mental, social, and spiritual education.
Page 54 - That the objects of the corporation shall be to encourage, in the broadest and most liberal manner, investigation, research, and discovery, and the application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind...
Page 94 - To interest the best young men and women in education as a lifelong career 5. To encourage careful selection of persons admitted to schools which prepare teachers, with emphasis on both character and scholarship 6. To seek through the dissemination of information and through higher standards of preparation to bring teacher supply and demand into a reasonable balance...
Page 108 - American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engi-neers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Page 76 - Rotarian of his occupation as an opportunity to serve society; (3) the application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to his personal, business, and community life; (4) the advancement of international understanding, good will, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional men united in the ideal of service.