Word: ages
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...thoughts that mould the age begin...
...Stern opened the debate for the affirmative with a clear, well-constructed speech. The conditions in France, he said, are such that workingmen cannot provide for their old age. For the past 50 years the government has tried to remedy these conditions by a plan of workingmen's insurance, but it has failed. Relief can be had by adopting a scheme to provide pensions for superannuated workmen...
...Sharfman closed the affirmative debate. Conditions, he said, demand the adoption of a scheme for granting pensions to superannuated workmen. This will reduce pauperism, facilitate the cooperation of labor and capital, and make the benefits of old age pensions universal...
Professor Kuhnemann is a scholar of remarkable attainments. Although under 40 years of age he has stood out in Germany, for more than 10 years; as one of the leaders in the new literary and spiritual movement which is a part of the general turning of the age toward idealistic views of life. His first book to attract general attention dealt with Schiller's Kantian studies and their influence upon the composition of "Wallenstein." Then followed his "Life of Herder," the best constructed and most illuminating biography of this forerunner of the classic epoch of German literature. This was followed...
...Political Club lecture last night in the Randolph Hall Breakfast Room, Mr. Seward W. Jones gave his personal reminiscences as a campaign manager. At 28 years of age he entered politics as a member of the ward and city committee of Newton, Mass. There he soon learned the methods of securing voters, fair and unfair. By means of which the balance of strength between the evenly matched Republican and Democratic parties in the ward was thrown on the side of the former...