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Page 133 - ... the register of birth of such minor with a city or town clerk, that such minor is of the age stated in the certificate, except that other evidence, under oath, may be accepted in case the superintendent or person authorized by the school committee, as provided in the preceding section, decides that neither the certificate of birth or baptism, nor the register of birth is available for the purpose.
Page 130 - A child under 14 years of age who persistently violates the reasonable regulations of the school which he attends, or otherwise persistently misbehaves therein, so as to render himself a fit subject for exclusion therefrom...
Page 130 - A child between seven and sixteen years of age who may be found wandering about in the streets or public places of any city or town, having no lawful occupation, habitually not attending school, and growing up in idleness and ignorance, shall be deemed to be an habitual absentee, and, unless placed on probation as provided in section seven...
Page 130 - Lyman school for boys, and, if a girl, to the state industrial school for girls ; but if the girl be under twelve years of age she shall be committed to the custody of the state board of charity, if they so request, for not more than two years.
Page 133 - An age and schooling certificate shall not be approved unless satisfactory evidence is furnished by the last school census, the -certificate of birth or baptism...
Page 5 - If a race does not have plenty of children, or if the children do not grow up, or if when they grow up they are unhealthy in body and stunted or vicious in mind, then that race is decadent, and no heaping up of wealth, no splendor of momentary material prosperity, can avail in any degree as offsets.
Page 130 - Any minor convicted of being an habitual Truant, or any child convicted of wandering about in the Streets, or public places, of any City, or Town, having no lawful occupation, or business, not attending School, and growing up in ignorance...
Page 5 - Public play grounds are necessary means for the development of wholesome citizenship in modern cities. It is important that the work inaugurated here through voluntary efforts should be taken up and extended through Congressional appropriation of funds sufficient to equip and maintain numerous convenient small play grounds upon land which can be secured without purchase or rental.
Page 130 - A child between seven and fourteen years of age who wilfully and habitually absents himself from school contrary to the provisions of section one of chapter forty-four shall be deemed to be an habitual truant, and, unless placed on probation as provided in section seven of this chapter, may, upon complaint by a truant officer and conviction thereof, if a boy, be committed to a county truant school for not more than two years, and, if a girl, to the state industrial school for girls...
Page 131 - SEC. 10. An inmate of a county truant school or of the parental school of the city of Boston who persistently violates the reasonable regulations thereof, or is guilty of indecent or immoral conduct, or otherwise grossly misbehaves, so as to render himself an unfit subject for retention therein, may, upon complaint by the officer in control of said school and conviction thereof, if under 15 years of age, be committed to the Lyman School for Boys; if over 15 years of age, to the Massachusetts Reformatory.