Word: grind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...courses cover contemporary periods in the history of Europe and America, so that they have attracted a large number of men to elect them both in the same year. Moreover, they are two of the courses which require very large amounts of outside reading. To complete reviewing and 'grind' up the fine points in two such full courses at the very end of a long continued period of study is rather a hard task for those students who happen to be members of both sections. The instructors under these circumstances ought to look leniently upon the efforts of such...
...year, and many complaints have found their way to your columns, yet I must again ask you to publish a request to members of the freshman class to remember that, though they may have no pressing work on hand, yet others are engaged in the "semi-annual grind." Last night, while studying with a tutor, I was greatly troubled by a freshman disturbance, and it is to be hoped that no more complaints may be rendered necessary by the same cause...
...hardly seems becoming in the freshmen to engage in an uproarious entertainment in one of the largest dormitories while all the upper-classmen are busy in the depths of a semiannual grind. To have seventy lively young men running up and down stairs, or singing in a single room is a little apt to distract the minds of those less enjoyably engaged. At any other time of the year it could easily be put up with as an evidence of superfluous an animal spirits; but in examination time it is rather trying...
...play and the consequent forfeiture of the game to us, the utter absurdity of this communication is apparent at once. In excuse for Columbia however, it must be said that further inquiries by our manager soon gained us the information that the dispatch was not genuine and presumably a "grind." We can only deplore the lamentable want of tact in the person who sent this insulting communication, for had he possessed ordinary comprehension he must have seen in what an unenviable position he placed himself and his associates by his foolishness...
Each student was stirring, loafer, grind...