Word: poore
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...great elements in the degradation and violence of the Russian people has been the excessive taste for liquor, even among what should be the hardy element of the population. In all the struggles the people will be at a continual disadvantage, having poor equipment and no unity or confidence in each other. The political advancement of the people can be attained only by moral education, and while this is being fostered, the population must be held in check by the aristocracy...
...fielding was for the most part very crude. The outfielders used poor judgment in catching flies and the infielders handled the ball very clumsily. The poor throwing was in part due to the change from the shorter distances of the Cage...
What a man gets out of living in a College dormitory cannot be measured in dollars and cents. If the Corporation intends to give the best to the students it should give them more and better College dormitories even if it should prove a poor financial investment. As I said at the beginning it does not seem right for the President and Fellows to look at the question of Yard dormitories in such a coldly financial spirit...
...population of New York, he said, is increasing so rapidly, and the value of property is accordingly becoming so high, that the poor are obliged to pay about one-third of their yearly incomes in rent. Usually, in the more crowded sections, there is about one family to a room, no matter whether the family is of three or ten members. This congestion of population has led to a death-rate four times as high as when families lived in flats of four or five rooms each...
...greatest progress which has been made in New York to offset this condition has been in the destruction of dark alleys, where poor tenements containing rooms in which no light or air had access, were prevalent. In the investigations made by a committee for the purpose, 360,000 rooms were found which did not have any external openings for light or air. Now the laws forbid the erection of any structure in which there shall be a single room which does not have an external opening. Mr. Riis showed many interesting views of the poorer quarters of New York under...