Word: cinching
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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...other hand, nearly every course has its own advocates who stoutly maintain that it requires very little work. In this fact is to be found the truth about "easy" courses. A man will find any course more or less a "cinch" if the subject matter interests him. Conversely, a course in which the subject is of no interest will prove difficult no matter how little work is required...
During the mid-year period there is always much discussion of courses for the second half-year. On every side one hears the old, old question: "Do you know of any 'cinch' courses?" The time, energy, and words that are employed in the search for easy courses amounts yearly to an enormous economic waste. Happily, such quests are more frequently made by members of the lower classes than upper-class men. This is because a year or two's experience usually suffices to show an undergraduate that to take a course merely because some friend has confided to him that...