Word: plight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...childish as he grows up; but this notion ought not to be fostered by the school system itself. The vast majority of men in college who are not blind to their own faults and deficiencies, will be found to admit that their knowledge of geography is in a woeful plight. In this point as in all other matters, we have a great deal to learn from the Germans. There this study is taught right through the school course for two hours a week, excepting in some gymnasia, where the last two years are devoted to other subjects. In the preliminary...
...unless it should be the case that his window is almost as strongly barred as those of a goal. Before the gratings with which the lower rooms of our colleges are fortified had been broken-down from without, the poor fellow within might be in as miserable a plight as the sinners who are represented in the 'Calvary' at Antwerp, kept in by bars and amidst the flames of Purgatory...
...case of sickness is worthy of sober consideration, and many, to their sorrow, can bear witness to the truth of the statement that the students' position there "is simply wretched." A student at Harvard who cannot afford nurses and extra dishes when sick is surely in a most unenviable plight, and really the careless regulations provided by the college in such cases are very unsatisfactory and reflect no credit on the authorities. Of course there is the refuge of the college hospital, but that is not likely to be taken advantage of by any one who can avoid...
With frost he 's in terrible plight...