Word: grind
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...these editorials I have found the same theme. Labor is unjust, unreasonable, ignorant. I have worked for a year and a half as a factory hand. I belong to the working class. I know that a weary, body-deforming, mind-stupefying, soul-killing grind the worker's life is. I believe I understand the worker's view. Be says, "Give me a square deal and I shall give you a square deal." When capital gives the square deal the day of labor troubles is over. Until that square deal is given the labor question will always be before us. FRANCES...
...other hand, the Freshmen will compete with the up-staters in a four-mile grind putting their chief hope in E. E. Schaefer '24 to capture first honors...
...majority of "students" have their vision so firmly set on high marks that they fail to see anything else on the landscape, any "broader" man who does receive high grades will have to keep it secret (as he does now) for fear of being classed as a "grind," and there will continue to be no place for the "student" in the social makeup of the college...
...this is merely the result of disregarding the most elementary laws of human commonsense. A few more tokens of interest on the part of this type of professor, and a dull unwilling grind would be changed to real interest end enjoyment of the course. And yet there are always a few members on the staff of every University who fail to see that straightforward human interest and a manly attitude of give and take are of incalculably greater worth, as far as the training of students is concerned, than the most eminent record of scholarly attainment...