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Affluent and comfortable alumni like to picture their oldtime pedagogs spending the twilight of their lives in doddering but happy security. Sometimes the alumni do something about it, giving big sums to their schools and colleges. But few have much scientific knowledge of pension systems. So that those interested in that phase of U. S. pedagogy might be better informed, last week President Henry Smith Pritchett issued Bulletin No. 25 of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Its title: "The Social Philosophy of Pensions, with a Review of Existing Pension Systems for Professional Groups...
...discharged without notice on the Saturday before Christmas--"a fine Christmas present", as Mrs. Katharine Donahue ruefully described it. Mrs. Donahue has been in the employ of Harvard for thirty-three years. She said that so far as she has been able to find out the university has neither pension nor compensation protection for its old employees...
...unused to seeing the scars of War are employes at the U. S. Pension Bureau. But last week they looked, and looked at a face such as few of them had ever seen. Across the forehead was branded a huge double eagle, the wing tips reaching to the temples, the tail running half way down the nose. Beneath the branded eagle, faintly discernible, was the outline of a huge spider...
...face belonged to one Albert Nye Roughton, 54, U. S. citizen. Worn, wrinkled, penniless, he had tramped from Ottumwa, Iowa, to Washington to tell his story. He had served aboard the U. S. S. Dixie during the Spanish War, was thus entitled to a pension. The brand on his brow he got from the Turks in 1915. Aboard a British Merchantman running the Turkish blockade into Asia Minor, he had been captured, mistaken for a spy. The Turks had marked his forehead with their own Spider of Death and Germany's Double Eagle. Then they imprisoned...
...Widows Pension Bill (TIME, Oct. 28) passed after an all-night debate lasting 18 hours which resulted in the altering of exactly one word in the original text...