Word: grind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Each student was stirring, loafer, grind...
...thanks of the college are due to those kindly and enterprising persons who are thoughtful enough to provide it with light and cheerful amusement every evening. When one has toiled over a hard examination in the morning, when one has spent the hot afternoon in a wearing grind, when the mind has been afflicted with these evils and the body with Memorial hash, when, despite all this, one settles down for some more hard and wearing work in the evening, then those well-meaning individuals who get up a lively nocturnal entertainment certainly deserve the heartfelt praise and gratitude...
...feel quite sure Prof. White will oblige the men interested about the matter, and if he can will have the examination April 28, the week before. May 5 will be a very good date, as it will give the freshmen and other unfortunates an opportunity to recover from their grind on the one hand, and the seniors and others a chance to prepare for theirs on the other...
...wish to get a thorough understanding of the course will object to the system now in practice. The principal points of the course are kept constantly before the minds of the men, so that besides understanding the subject more thoroughly they will not be compelled to grind so hard just before the examinations. Furthermore, what is a great convenience and benefit to many, hour-examinations are dispensed with. The whole system amounts to a substitution of a series of informal, detailed questions and explanations in the place of two or three hurriedly prepared written examinations. We think that the instructor...
...this lad's first note, the busy grind...