Word: children
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...beginning of the organization of labor coincided with the beginning of the factory age, when the long hours, resulting from the new use of artificial light, the little regard for human life, and the introduction of the labor of women and children called forth protests from all thinking men. The reduction of the working day from fourteen or sixteen hours to twelve was met with the same arguments of the impending ruin of industry and the invasion of the rights of workingmen as are now leveled against the eight-hour day. But it would be difficult...
...cruising in summer the length of the coast in his steel hospital ship, the "Strathcona"; and in winter travelling through the country by dog team. He has founded three small hospitals, an industrial school, a mill and several co-operative stores; and plans to build a home for derelict children. His pictures give a very clear idea of the features of the barron coast of Labrador, the icebergs and fiords, which Dr. Grenfell compares favorably with those of Norway...
President and Mrs. Eliot will sail for Europe from New York tomorrow, on a short visit to their daughter, Mrs. Charles Eliot, and her children, who are now in Switzerland. They expect to return to America early in the spring. President Eliot has recovered from his recent attack of the grippe and is in his usual good health...
Considerable ground near the buildings has been reserved for the various hospitals affiliated with the School which have been proposed. As yet, however, no work on these has been done, as the Brigham Hospitals has been delayed by litigation and the Children's Hospital by lack of funds. Plans for the Infants' hospital are being drawn by Dr. T. M. Rotch '70, and work on the building will probably begin during the summer...
Metropolitan--"A Boy's eye View of a Circus," by J. Corbin '92; "Christmas and the Children," by E. S. Martin '77; "Lady Angela's Methods," by H. Rhodes '93: "If I Were Henry James," by E. S. Martin '77: "The Stage at Holiday Time," by J. E. Goodman...