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commits the already proposed items to more significant implications.
The definition so expanded must be passed on, for challenge or
alteration by the evidence of the training schools.

FOOTNOTES:
[32] The 1920 conference heard from four judges (three of them of
juvenile courts), three college professors and one college president,
a bishop, a rabbi, a governor, and a state commander of the American
Legion, as well as from doctors and other professional people who
occupied positions ranking as social work.
[33] Conference, 1919, pp. 111, 123, 133, 136.
[34] Ibid. 1920, pp. 271 and 278.
[35] Ibid. pp. 188, 111, 129, 135 and 298.
[36] Ibid. p. 4.
[37] History of English Philanthropy, p. 269.
[38] Ibid., p. 273.
[39] Ibid., p. 271, referring to the opening of the 18th century.
[40] Ibid., p. 266.
[41] Conference, 1920, p. 74.
[42] Ibid., p. 77.
[43] Ibid., p. 267.
[44] The New Basis of Civilization, p. 55.
[45] Philanthropy and the State, p. 235.
[46] Ibid., p. 302.
[47] Conference, 1919, p. 583.
[48] Ibid., 1918, p. 147.
[49] Ibid., p. 171.
[50] Ibid., 1919, p. 100.
[51] Ibid., 1918, p. 126.
[52] Ibid., p. 136.
[53] Conference, 1918, p. 287.
[54] R. W. Kelso, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 22, No. 1.

CHAPTER V
THE TESTIMONY OF THE SCHOOLS

There are some fifteen schools for the training of social workers,[55]
independent institutions or university departments. The younger among
them have not followed at all closely the organization or practices of
the older[56] and all work in close co-operation with local social work
agencies, farming their students out with these for practice work and
drawing lecturers from the agency staffs. The varied curricula of the
schools seem therefore to offer direct evidence of what is considered
in their respective regions, the most necessary equipment for social
workers.
Only three school catalogues venture any characterization of the tasks
for which their courses equip. Toronto gives the most inclusive. “The
sense of social obligation and interdependence has grown greater as
our social life has grown more complex. The more social conditions
have been studied, the more apparent has it become that many of our
worst evils are due to the lack of the science which should direct and
stimulate the sense of our solidarity. In recent years governments,
municipal and other authorities, industrial corporations and voluntary
associations of all kinds have been compelled to make ever-extending
provisions for industrial protection, social insurance, public health
service, housing improvement, recreation and various other forms of
organized social effort. All these activities have created the sphere
of a new profession, that of the trained social worker.” Here are the
familiar “sense of social obligation,” the reference to a “science
which should direct and stimulate this sense,” the “ever-extending