Word: squalore
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...Indians as well as the colored students retain the influence of their training even when they return to their old surroundings, and many build comfortable homes for themselves in the midst of surrounding squalor and ignorance...
...Herrick describes a shifless, hopeless family, in his article entitled "Squalor." The picture is vividly drawn, and Mrs. Calkins and the parson stand out as if they were real persons...
...that because they did not care for a lighted library when they were in college, no one now needs it. Such notions, however, may satisfy the corporation, but not the students. The present temper of the latter is wholly indifferent as to whether the corporation used to perfer squalor and darkness or not. What they want, or, at least, what 90 per cent. of those who use the library want, is a library that is open, as much of the day as libraries are ordinarily opened, and is light enough at all times for comfortable reading...
...American, is because his standard of living is so much lower. When he receives large wages he spends his money in luxuries, champagne for himself, and silk dresses for his wife, and then when hard times come he is destitute. This is the reason why protectionists find squalor and poverty among the laboring classes in England, and not because of free trade...
...what seemed to him the utter disregard of the comfort of the student in the matter of food and in other respects. In case of sickness the student's position is simply wretched. Except some Gampish old bed-makers, apparently indebted for their position to their ugliness and squalor, not an attendant is visible between early one morning and early the next, and there is no kitchen whence a student can get as much as a bowl of soup or slice of bread and butter. The whole system, or rather want of system, is a serious reflection upon the much...