Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...basis of election, instead of electing, as at present, a certain number of men in each class. Now it calls for a greater recognition of the "outside activities." Yet the present system is the very one under which the electors have the greatest latitude for discrimination between the "grind" and the man of real ability and broad attainment. At present, the electors can recognize, and do recognize, intellectual achievement outside of the class-room, as well as in the class-room, in a manner that would be absolutely impossible were the election conducted under a hard-and-fast rule...
Tolerance leads one naturally to Mr. Mariett's story of undergraduate life which bears that virtue for its title--a happy, humorous, altogether real story of a grind and the way he got over it--the simplest, truest story of college life in the reviewer's memory. The other stories are cruder in execution, though less sincere in purpose, be their background the gold fields of the Yukon as depicted by Mr. Hoffman; the civilized though somewhat vague habitations of an Irene, serially being educated by Mr. Moderwell; or the dusky hillside of a pair of married lovers left...