Word: grind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Saturday we finished our semi-annual grind, and it may be interesting to look about us and see how our student-brethren of other colleges have passed their ordeals. The semi-annual examination has just been ended at the military academy at West Point. Considerable surprise is expressed over the result, there being a very large number of cadets who failed to pass. Five were sent back from the third to the fourth class, and the fourth class lost a quarter of its whole membership. The first class is a small one, there being only 30 members. All of them...
...asked after another Tufts friend. Our host stepped to the door and cried up the stairs for some one to tell Sam to come down. The students are on close terms with the professors, and are very intimate with each other. We were shown the "head grind," "the strongest man in college," the man who boarded himself on fifty cents a week, the chemical labratory, the "Quad," the various objects of interest that crowd upon the visitor at Tufts, and finally left with an impression that Tufts College is the largest institution "that ever lived in the tide of time...
...committee has no axes to grind, it has not been run in the interest either of Mr. Watson or of Mr. Bancroft. There is no truth whatever in the statement that the committee has on several occasions interfered with the affairs of the boat club, with disastrous results to the success of the crew...
...strain at either end we can comfortably leave our college course for the period of two weeks. The vacation, coming as it does just before the mid-year examination, can be looked at in two very widely differing ways. Some consider it as a breathing spell in the steady grind of college work, and enjoy themselves to the utmost. Others look upon it as a special opportunity, reserved by the hand of Providence, for a cloister like course of study, and are only too eager to improve the opportunity. We sincerely hope that both of these classes will find...
...seeing other men get flunked. 'Use of library,' that's not so bad; I've been there three times, I think. Once to get out something of Smollets', and twice to get a look at a reference book, but both times that I tried to go there to grind, I couldn't get in, because the place was shut up, soon after lunch, owing to lack of energy on someone's part to light the ranch,-Lux in temebris is evidently no motto for our enlightened authorities. Here we have 'rent and care of room, $80.' Yes, that's right...