Word: grind
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...study was bad form; and as for going to recitations, why, I never go. But as this letter is to you, and is withal a frank confession, I will acknowledge studying a little now and then when I think no one will see me; for to be found grinding is to be held up for ridicule to all the "best men" of the College. No one objects to your standing up high in your class if you can do it without seeming to grind; in fact, great natural ability and "to know it all before you came" is very advantageous...
...grind...
ONCE upon a midnight dreary, after an evening's grind over Thucydides and English 1, I walked out into the Yard, just at the hour when churchyards yawn, (Query, is it the exceeding sleepiness of the inhabitants that makes churchyards yawn?) to cool my throbbing brain...
...grind up physics cold...
...fire away, old grind, you have the coldest cheek