Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...several periods of relaxation and refreshment. This is the wherefore of holidays. Moreover, at least once during the academic session, it is necessary that the student take himself away from Cambridge and wash from him completely the dust of every day. He needs to forget temporarily the grind of study and the whirl of his petty activities among family surroundings, in the luxury of plum pudding debauches, and playing the social lion in his home town...
...abolish it; and large sums of money have been given to aid their work. But they give the impression of seeing the end more clearly than the means, and appear to think that war can be forever drowned out by a flood of talk, that the pen can grind the sword into a plowshare. Some pacifists speak as if any alternate were always preferable to war; and yet very few of them would carry the principle of non-resistance so far as to reduce this country to the condition of china, a prey to the foreign spoiler. Between national subjection...
...pass man by choice,--the man who chooses courses because they are reputed to be easy. It is intellectual curiosity, a conscientious striving to know, which distinguishes the man of culture from the complacent philistine. This spirit, combined with four years of effort,--not necessarily of the "grind" variety,--will make a man educated to the extent at least of not bringing shame upon the university whose degree he holds...
...shorter course and the results would be about the same. I feel very strongly in favor of retaining the four-mile race, as a crew to win must know how to row and cannot rely entirely on slugging. It is the very fact that it is a long grind which makes it so worth while and so appealing to those who delight in a test of endurance...
...second University football squad is credited with a most remarkable record for the season just closing. At the beginning of the fall practice there were sixty-two men on the second squad and the long period of grind ended with fifty-one men still reporting for duty. Four of the eleven who did not finish with the second had been taken up onto the University squad, namely, J. L. Bigelow '16, C. C. Felton '16, E. G. Swigert '15, and W. J. Underwood '15. Practically the entire remainder of the men dropped out of the work on account of injuries...