Word: children
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...federal legislature, that was finally declared unconstitutional, which should prevent goods made under child labor in one state from passing into another. Owing to the great demand for white factory hands in the South and to a lack of inspectors, conditions are such that large numbers of very young children are found employed in factories. It is the purpose of the Consumers' League to lessen these evils as far as possible...
...Woods, of Boston--four lectures on "Women and Children in Industrial Life...
...conference for all men actively engaged in social service work, on the third floor of Phillips Brooks House. The object is to exchange ideas and experiences and to answer questions that may have occurred to men, regarding their work. Mr. C. W. Birtwell '81, secretary of the Children's Aid Society of Boston, will preside, and will probably call on some of the men present for a brief account of the work they have been doing in conducting boys' clubs, coaching teams, and teaching classes. There will also be extemporaneous speaking and discussion, and all men who have been engaged...
...choice in his invited guests, yet drove his housemaids to despair by insisting on the admittance of the poorest children in Cambridge to tramp through his study daily or to sit triumphantly in the chair which their little subscriptions had bought for him. This was the man whom we meet to commemorate: this was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
...quiet home life and calm business career of fifty years ago with the conventional customs and frenzied haste of today. Fortunate is the man who was brought up in his youth by a wise mother and father of the old type--parents whose sole aim was to educate their children in the ways of simplicity and true happiness. Today the seemingly successful man is so engrossed in his own interest that many external affairs which contain the real pleasures of life are excluded. He has no time for vacation, for the joys of home life, or for the tranquillity...