Word: digging
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Schliemann dig for relics
...does not, after all, get the best of Harvard culture, and whether the "grind," discountenancing, of course, a too persistent and unhealthy devotion to study, is not, on the whole, more worthy of admiration and respect than the "swell." I suspect that much of our affected contempt for a "dig" is a result of indolence. It is very convenient for a lazy man to express the opinion that "grinds" and "grinding" are a bore, but such an opinion, he may be sure, won't in the end be a paying one. A summer vacation, when we get out into...
Look at that poor dig, how he grinds; so will he do when he leaves college, and finally settle down into some hard-working, long-suffering, and perhaps starving country lawyer or doctor. Such a life does not pay. Go you forth into the world; keep up the good opinion you now have of yourself; try and impress others with the same idea; and if your aims in life are not altogether attained, console yourself by thinking what you could do if you only would; and above all, keep your aims low, for "men of lofty aims" are never happy...
...relics of the ancients will carry you back to the days when men saw such limbs at every turn. The striking realism of the French pictures of the present day will remind you of hundreds of things which indolence will permit you neither to think for yourself, nor to dig out of the endless pages of a stupid book...
...would undoubtedly accept an invitation to such contests, provided that there were no gamblers or blacklegs to mar the rural simplicity of the occasion. What a proud day it would be for old Harvard to witness her sons manfully endeavoring either to outplough and outhoe their competitors, or to dig ditches of given lengths against time! Then, and not until then, can we realize that we are engaging in some useful and honest work, and not foolishly spending our time and forces in such an exhibition of brute strength as a regatta...