Thus have the reports of the conference confirmed and filled out the tentative definition. But the analysis did not cull from them any fresh characteristics of social work. Their mass of commentary, aimed, as it seemed, in all possible directions, would suggest no testimony except in answer to leading questions and we will have to be satisfied with such expansion of the definition as, while adding no new terms, 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.