Word: pauper
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...housing, among other subjects. The first Census, in 1790, was mainly a head count of free, white, draft-eligible men. Later queries were sometimes absurdly specific: in 1850, data collectors were instructed to "ascertain if there be any person in the family deaf, dumb, idiotic, blind, insane, or pauper." The 1870 Census distinguished between farmers and "farm laborers" and between housekeepers and those just "keeping house." (Enumerators were also instructed to "use the word huckster in all cases where it applies.") Until the Civil War, surveys differentiated free people from slaves, who had historically counted as three-fifths...
...Indeed, your assault on the Humanities in general seems part of a program to reduce King’s to a pauper or, perhaps, something closer to a vocational school,” Hamburger wrote in the e-mail to King’s College department administrators...