History and Minutes of the National Council of Women of the United States, Organized in Washington, D.C., March 31, 1888 |
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History and Minutes of the National Council of Women of the United States Louise Barnum Robbins No preview available - 2023 |
History and Minutes of the National Council of Women of the United States Louise Barnum Robbins No preview available - 2023 |
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Anna Howard Shaw ANNIE JENNESS appointed Board of Lady Bonney Chairman Chicago Columbian Exposition Committee of Arrangements Committee on Dress Congress of Representative Constitution convened Corresponding Secretary Council Idea Council of Women Council or House Countess of Aberdeen discussion District of Columbia Divorce Reform Elizabeth Ellen Foster Executive Committee Frances Frances E fraternal delegates Hannah Illinois Indianapolis International Council International Kindergarten Union invited Isabella Charles Davis Kate Brownlee Sherwood Lady Managers Lillian M. N. Stevens Local Council Lower Council Loyal Women Mary Lowe Dickinson membership motion National Association National Council national organizations officers organizations of women Patrons Pennsylvania present programme Proxy of President Rachel Foster Avery Recording Secretary Representative Women Sarah second triennial standing committees sympathy tion Treasurer triennial meeting triennial session United UNIVERSAL PEACE UNION Utah Vice-President vote Washington Willard Woman's Branch Woman's Building Woman's Relief Corps World's Congress Auxiliary Wright Sewall York
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Page 41 - We, women of all nations, sincerely believing that the best good of humanity will be advanced by greater unity of thought, sympathy, and purpose, and that an organized movement of women will best conserve the highest good of the family and of the State, do hereby band ourselves together in a confederation of workers, to further the application of the Golden Rule to society, custom, and law.
Page 130 - To specially aid and assist the Grand Army of the Republic and to perpetuate the memory of their heroic dead. To assist such union veterans as need our help and protection, and to extend needful aid to their widows and orphans.
Page 10 - International — believing that it will incalculably increase the world's sum total of womanly courage, efficiency, and esprit de corps ; that it will widen our horizon, correct the tendency to an exaggerated impression of one's own work as compared with that of others, and put the wisdom and experience of each at the service of all.
Page 190 - Constitution of the Woman's National Council of the United States were read, viz. : — PREAMBLE. We, women of the United States, sincerely believing that the best good of our homes and nation will be advanced by our own greater unity of thought, sympathy and purpose, and that an organized movement of women will best conserve the highest good of the family and the State, do hereby band ourselves together in a confederation of workers committed to the overthrow of all forms of ignorance and injustice...
Page 142 - This Council is organized in the interest of no one propaganda and has no power over the organizations which constitute it beyond that of suggestion and sympathy ; therefore no society voting to enter this Council shall thereby render itself liable to be interfered with in respect to its complete organic unity, independence or methods of work, or be committed to any principle or method of...
Page 19 - We are strongly in favor of such a federation, believing that it will incalculably increase the world's sum total of womanly courage, efficiency and esprit de corps ; that it will widen our horizon, correct the tendency to an exaggerated impression of one's own work as compared with that of others, and put the wisdom and experience of each at the service of all.
Page 190 - ... this Council shall thereby render itself liable to be interfered with in respect to its complete organic unity, independence, or methods of work, or be committed to any principle or method of any other society, or to any act or utterance of the Council itself, beyond compliance with the terms of this Constitution.
Page 140 - Woman Suffrage Association issued a call to the women of the world, stating that on March 25, 1888, an International Council of Women would be convened in Washington, DC , to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of "the | first organized demand for equal educational, industrial, professional and political rights for women, which was made in a convention held at Seneca Falls, New York (USA), in the year 1848.
Page 71 - ... methods of work, or be committed to any principle or method of any other society, or to any utterance or act of the council itself, beyond compliance with the terms of this constitution.
Page 172 - And besides this, giving all diligence, ADD to your faith virtue; AND to virtue knowledge; AND to knowledge temperance; AND to temperance patience; AND to patience godliness; AND to godliness brotherly kindness; AND to brotherly kindness charity.