Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dear Sirs:-Cannot something be done to protect us from the wild hordes of the mucker tribe which invade the yard at all seasons of the day and night? The position of a student trying to grind in Holworthy, Stoughton or Hollis is a very trying one. Notwithstanding the fact that a cross-eyed copper drove a handful of us from the Common last year, because that was for the people and we had grounds of our own-a good half of Cambridge's male population-or perhaps a bad half-make the college yard the place for the daily...
Last evening the annual dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa was held at the Victoria. Mr. Max Winkler officiated as officer of ceremonies, and he called upon the following men to respond to toasts: Mr. Bunker to "Is the grind a productive consumer?" Mr. Darling to "The world formula insofar forth" as expressed in the Phi Beta Kappa "as such." Mr. Dodge to the idealism of Marlowe, Massinger and Middleton, contrasted with the subjective idealism of Byron, Browning and Walt Whitman," Mr. Lathrop to "Early rising and its influence on poetry." Mr. Newell to "The modern Puritan." Mr. Pillsbury...
...frequent celebrations, the noisy ebullitions of students, due to the delight of being "all through," are neither a cause of edification nor enjoyment to their less fortunate neighbors who are still compelled to plod the tiresome road of the "grind." Again, the man who surrounds himself with more reserved books than he can use at once, that forsooth, when he wishes to study them he may not be obliged to wait, is doing a positive injustice to his fellow-students. Thoughtlessness has been made to serve as the mask for a multitude of sins in the past...
Under "Topics of the Day," is given an account of the experience of "Brown, the moderate grind," in his attempts to write a sophomore theme. Many a sophomore will find his sympathies aroused for the struggling novice and will secretly admit that his own name might well be substituted in place of that of Brown. The article is admirable for its faithful description of a common experience in student life...
...first place I do not understand why men cannot grind up just before hour examinations as they do before mid-year examinations, and consequently gain almost as little from their work in one case as in the other. It is true the constant feeling of an impending examination would probably cause some men to do better work than they do under the present system. Still the real evil is but slightly mitigated...