Word: children
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stories and a play complete the number. "The Viceroy's Treasure" is bare where it might have been convincing; and it is difficult to determine whether "Upon Thy Children's Children" is or is not farce. The latter begins rather effectively with an Indian legend and ends with an entirely obvious and uninteresting love story, apparently intended to illustrate the ancient theme of the legend. "The Ambassador" is clever, light, and decidedly amusing. Without it the number would be a comparative failure; as it is, Mother Advocate turns into the road for a new volume with at least one good...
...Sophomores maintained that to continue the secularization of education would abolish the good as well as the poor religious schools. Also the measures would antagonize that part of the people who desire religious instruction for their children. Moreover the measure is an extreme one and as such would tend to excite the inflamable French temper...
...unless he is rich enough to be able to withdraw at the times when his judgment does not indorse the actions of his party. For otherwise, there is almost sure to come to a professional politician a crisis when he must choose between his principles, and bread for his children. A man not rich enough to make politics his profession in this manner, should go into a business or profession and then take office when the conditions are such that he agrees with his party, but can also withdraw from politics at such times as he does...
...give a reading from his book, "The Men Without a Country" at the Parish House of the First Unitarian Church, on Harvard square, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The proceeds from the lecture will be used for the maintenance, in Reading, Massachusetts, of a vacation home for the children of Boston working people. The price of admission will be 50 cents; reserved seats $1. Tickets may be obtained at 20 Oxford street, Cambridge, or at the church...
...twelve men are teaching in the Chinese Sunday School on Beacon Hill. Chinamen come there at first to learn the English language but a large number of them, attracted by the spirit of the place, continue to come back for the religious teaching of the school. Through the Boston Children's Aid Society other men are meeting groups of children, usually in some room of a tenement house, for an hour or so each week--to read to them, play games and distribute the books from the little circulating libraries which the Society furnishes. In these, and a number...