Department of Education: Hearing Before the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, Third Session on S. 4987, a Bill to Create a Department of Education, to Appropriate Money for the Conduct of Said Department, to Appropriate Money for Federal Cooperation with the States in the Encouragement and Support of Education, and for Other Purposes. December 5, 1918 |
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Page 109 - Bureau shall investigate and report * * * upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 109 - The Bureau of Labor Statistics is charged with the duty of acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relations to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 109 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with Agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate and distribute among the people, new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 7 - That the Federal Board for Vocational Education may withhold the allotment of moneys to any State whenever it shall be determined that such moneys are not being expended for the purposes and under the conditions of this Act. If any allotment is withheld from any State, the State board of such State may appeal to the Congress of the United States, and if the Congress shall not direct such sum to be paid it shall be covered into the Treasury.
Page 7 - State and local authorities for the equalization of educational opportunities, for the promotion of physical education, and for the preparation of teachers shall not be less for any year than the amount provided for the same...
Page 4 - Labor, or any business arising therefrom or pertaining thereto, or In relation to the duties performed by and authority conferred by law upon such bureau...
Page 110 - Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau Bureau of Animal Industry Bureau of Plant Industry Forest Service Bureau of Chemistry Bureau of Soils Bureau of Entomology Bureau of Biological Survey...
Page 6 - States in the proportion which their population bears to the total population of the United States, not including outlying possessions, according to the last preceding United States census...
Page 86 - Washington, 1914. 28 p. plates. (Bulletin, 1914, no. 17) 1298. The tangible rewards of teaching. A detailed statement of salaries paid to the several classes of teachers and school officers. Compiled by James C. Boykin and Roberta King, for the Commission of the National education association on teachers' salaries and cost of living. Washington, 1914. 461 p. (Bulletin, 1914, no. 16) 1299. University extension in the United States, by Louis E. Reber. Washington, 1914. 63 p. (Bulletin, 1914, no. 19)...
Page 4 - The Board shall at the close of each fiscal year make a report in writing to Congress and to the President stating in detail the cases it has heard, the decisions it has rendered, the names, salaries, and duties of all employees and...