Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...elected president of the Long Island Railroad. As chairman of the trustees of the General Education Board he was one of the chief promoters of negro education in the south. He was also a trustee of Tuskegee Institute and of Smith College, and was actively connected with both social and civil reform movements in New York City...
...first meeting of the Political Club this year will be held in the Randolph Breakfast Room at 7.30 o'clock this evening. Mr. Robert A. Woods, of the South End House, Boston, a student of social problems and the author of many books, including "A City Wilderness," will speak on "The Background of City Politics." The meeting will be open to members of the Political Club and to all who desire to become members. After the address there will be an informal discussion and refreshments...
...putting aside our own personal welfare or gain, we see before us the great national questions and the great humanitarian questions. The number-less social problems of wages, health, disease, charities, divisions of profits, are pressing on us and can be answered only by reason, guided by knowledge and high character, and to the University men especially falls this interesting task...
Professor Milyoukov, who has been giving a course of lectures at the Lowell Institute on "The Russian Crisis," will review the history of Russian socialism since 1842, when the movement first became continuous. Neither a socialist nor an anarchist himself, Professor Milyoukov will deal with his subject from the point of view of the impartial historian, and will also touch briefly upon the present liberal and social crisis in Russia...
Entertainment troupes are now being organized, as in previous years, under the auspices of the Social Service Committee, to visit some of the charitable institutions in the vicinity of Cambridge. It is the design of those in charge of the work to furnish men willing to give performances at the various hospitals and charitable institutions desiring such entertainments. Among the various kinds of performances desired are music, both vocal and instrumental, lectures, readings and legerdemain. Men who have singing ability are especially needed...