Word: grimmest
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...undergraduate defeat is a serious matter. To the graduate, it is the grimmest of tragedy. The undergraduate has ample company in his misery. Everyone he meets commiserates the general misfortune, and his spirits are bound to rise in response to such universal sympathy. Not so the graduate. At the club, in the office, on the street, friend Smith from Yale, and Jones from Princeton and even Brown from some small Western college, triumph over him. They tease him, they heap ridicule upon him, and all in all, make his life miserable. Small wonder that his ago takes refuge in complaint...