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...fulfillment of all the hopes and dreams of a long plebe year just past; to the first classman it means chevrons and the privileges which only a first classman may enjoy; to everybody summer camp is a period of welcome relief and relaxation after a long and exacting academic grind. West Point life during the pleasant summer months more than lives up to the hopes entertained...
...this contemplation of Cambridge's rapid architectural metamorphosis and settle down to the duties of the coming year. With lectures to begin Wednesday there is no time to lose, for just around the corner lurk the wheels of knowledge just on the point of starting their nine month's grind...
...time for the Trade Union movement to begin to regulate the bankers," said he. "So long as we leave the control of credit in their hands, just so long will the workers be left to grind out wealth like squirrels in cages, while the bankers hold the keys to the cages...
...South State Street. Last week swart Jack Zuta strolled across the dance floor of a roadhouse at Delafield, Wis. He had just telephoned a girl in Chicago. He had a dime in his hand which he dropped into the mechanical piano. He looked happy. The mechanical piano began to grind out "Good...
...futility of written examinations after a full year's work in any course is evident to no one more than to the student suffering from a hard three-hour grind in New Lecture Hall. Three hours at the end of a year and proceeded by an abbreviated period of the most intensive cramming is unfair to the undergraduate, perhaps ungifted with a glib pen, who has worked steadily throughout the year and can be said to possess a comprehensive and appreciative knowledge of his subject. The final examination is, too, a boon to the man who makes a desperate last...