Haskell (210 192 chars)

My code is fairly simple:

import Data.Char
i x y="The "++x++"teen-hundreds were a time for "++y++".\n"
main=putStr.unlines.replicate(ord '\EM')$(i"eigh""rum"++i"nine""fun"++"The two-thousands are a time to run\na civilized classroom.")

Joins a 25x replicated list of the desired string and prints it. (\EM is ASCII 25)

###Edit

Updated score to omit import and trailing newline from count.