Word: grind
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There short sketches fill out this number. "The importance of Being a Grind" by W. C. Greene, and its companion piece. "The Importance of Being a Sport," by H. E. Porter, remind us of one of the best Advocate periods,--some fifteen years ago, when Mr. Flandran and his contemporaries were describing Harvard Types." But with this difference today the dissecting of the victim seems kindlier; the sareasm almost genral...
...decidedly more worthy of publication; continued calling of attention to the inefficiency of American national music may result in ultimate good, and the suggestions made in the essay--if it may be called such--are pertinent. The second article is genial, but it is a cross between a Lampoon grind and a CRIMSON editorial, with all the faults of both and few of the virtues of either. Both articles should have been shortened, and included among the editorials, or the second should have been developed differently, and sent to the Lampoon...
...Grind and the Sport," with which the number closes, either Mr. Erwin is a deliberate caricaturist or for once has fallen into a sin of overstatement and violent figure of which his clear insight and good judgements have not before been guilty
...English plays. Mr. Bowles' short story, "All in the Same Boat," is a new variation on an old theme, treated in melodramatic fashion. In the other piece of fiction, by Mr. Edgar, a more experienced hand is recognized in both construction and narration. A title more significant than "The Grind" would be "The Cad." It is to be hoped that students like Thurman are as remote from reality as the New England villagers he describes. "The Serious-Minded Student" takes himself so solemnly as to be fair game for his mates; but though the species is known, the sketch leaves...
...about athletes, for whom, in his latter work he has shown such a predilection. However, the story goes that the Advocate board in his day was fonder of crisp and witty prose and rather peppery editorials than of poetry, though it sometimes sat down--not without sarcastic comments--to grind out verses for the popular demand...