Word: grinds
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Yesterday's race demonstrated beyond a doubt that the best men are now in the Varsity shell. Eliel at 5 and Art Beane at 2 are finished oars, both capable of lasting the four mile grind on the Thames. Number 4, Erickson, another Sophomore, likewise appears to be built with a nickel-plated endurance, although not in the class with Beane and Eliel in blade work...
Graduates of this Academy will have a civil status with all resulting rights under the retirement laws of the United States. An incorruptible organization of career men, having no political axes to grind, will be built up, and the present vicious system of political appointments to federal administrative jobs will be slowly abolished. It will be a rare treat for the United States to have no political turnover in federal jobs every four years. Prominent educators in this country have often publicly lamented the need for a comprehensive civil service, similar to that of England. This bill, if passed, will...
With three weeks and a day of outdoor rowing behind them the Varsity crew has settled down into the long, early-season grind. The first race is against Princeton and M.I.T. on May 2. Whiteside had not made any changes in the stern two oars nor in the bow pair but the waist four seems to be only moderately satisfactory if the minor but repeated changes he has made here are indicative of relatively greater weakness...
...Marathon team of three will be picked after the B.A.A. run on Monday April 20 in Boston and the A.A.U. grind in Washington, D. C. on May 30. Finals in the decathlon will take place along with the semifinals for other events in Wisconsin...
...shift. Alumni have groused about the absence of "college spirit," the lacklustre air of extracurricular activities, the football team which played seven games last season and lost six of them. On their part, Rochester teachers have complained that Rochester students tend to grind for marks, that a true national university should have in its college a diversified, representative student body...