Word: squalidity
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President Eliot spoke in part as follows: War for the private soldier or sailor is at best a dull, coarse, squalid business It can not have any attraction for you, and yet the question-Shall I volunteer?- may become a pressing one within a few weeks or months. I shall discuss that question from the student's point of view...
...vespers yesterday evening and Rev. Mr. Lawrence of Cambridge delivered a sermon. Taking a text from Luke 2-45 where Jesus is found in the temple by his mother hearing the doctors and asking them questions, he said that the young Lord for the first time leaving the narrow, squalid provincialism of Nazareth, with its limited horizon and cramped ideas of life, coming into the larger activity of Jerusalem and beholding the wonders of its temple, might be compared to the student at the university who, coming from the narrowness of his provincial home, discovers in his new sphere...
...this time Athens was a town of some 10,000 inhabitants consisting principally of Turks, Greeks and Albanians. The city was poor and squalid, with narrow lanes, and no taverns for the accommodation of travelers. The houses were mean yet they contained many historic remains. The Acropolis was a Turkish fortress and closed to the Greeks; here lived the Turkish soldiery which garrisoned the city...