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...Thomas A. Edison's view that college graduates are too finicky--they want white-collar jobs and don't care for the sweat and the muck that are not dissociable with some kinds of hard work. Clerical employment appears congenial to them; the grind and the grief of mechanical engineering does not. At the bottom of Mr. Edison's gravamen against the collegian is his disinclination to work. He says a man is set for life at twenty-one, and if he is a dullard then, a dullard he will remain to the end of his days...
...that this extra pressure should be reduced as much as possible. Several instructors already have exempted Seniors from tests in the coming two weeks and others have extended the time limit for Seniors on term reports. If this were made a general custom the back of the pre-Divisional grind would be broken. The main objection, apparently, that has prevented such action is the fear that a precedent would be established giving the students an opening for further letting down of the bars. There seems to be no real grounds for such a fear. If a fretting horse is given...
...adversity"; but the uses of knowledge, though more difficult of fruition, are sweeter. It is a sad truth that for many men a college degree means no more than a certificate of work gone through with-a certain number of years spent in such and such a way. "Grind" as he will, the student who, parrot-like, fills his blue-books full of his professor's own phrases, is, in the final analsis, little more benefited than the one who attends classes with the same sang-forld with which he pays the Bursar. And by the same token, the great...
...lacked the necessary strength-giving constituents, or vitamins. The connection between these two facts could not be more obvious. We no longer wonder why such deference was shown to a careful of old stones; for these stones are to be set up in the heart of the college to grind the corn that will make the "pone" which will make Yale athletes grow strong again...
...comparatively high stroke yesterday will be followed by another of the same kind today. Coach Haines sent his first two crews down the length of the Basin with frequent spurts between the two. From the lower end of the Basin they were put through the long five-mile grind to the Newell Boathouse at a steady, uninterrupted pace...