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...retrieve himself by diligent work. Almost without exception men will decide to do as they have done, the diligent will increase their diligence, the idlers will sleep. For the latter, hopeless as the warning is, it is well to advise that the mills of the gods, however slow, grind exceeding small...
...There are two names, Stephenson and Stevenson. The one is English, the other Scotch. The one may be the name of the devil for what I know; the other is mine. You know, by the Wellers, what immortal hatred may be kindled by a letter. And I own I grind under this which robs me, not only of my ancestors, but of my native country; and I grind the harder since I see an American publisher actually announcing my own books, and in type, under this travesty. I am, Dear Sir, Yours truly, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Not Steph...
...Dance: (1) One step, "Setting the Pace"; (2) Fox Trot, "Chin-Chin, from Hip, Hip, Hooray"; (3) one step, "Molly Dear, It's You I'm After"; (4) waltz, "Only Girl Waltzes"; (5) Fox Trot, "Underneath the Stars"; (6) one step, "America, I Love You"; (7) Fox Trot, "Georgia Grind"; (8) waltz, "Sweet Maidens"; (9) one step, "The Junior Prom."; (10) Fox Trot, "Ragging the Scale"; (11) one step, "In Blinky, Winky, Chinky Chinatown"; (12) waltz, "Muriel Waltzes"; (13) Fox Trot, "I'm Simply Crazy Over You"; (14) one step, "When I Leave the World Behind"; (15) Fox Trot...
This is not to say that all the others are to be classed as "grinds." The term "grind" is, or ought to be, applied to the man whose interests are one-fold, whose mind is literally single-tracked. He fails to acquire the human element in culture. Of course, the scholar whose name appears on no University record besides this list and the Directory, may have varied tastes; the drama, or music, or attempting to create literature may be his humanizing hobbies. And the football player may be a grind as well as the scholar,--if he cannot see beyond...
...several periods of relaxation and refreshment. This is the wherefore of holidays. Moreover, at least once during the academic session, it is necessary that the student take himself away from Cambridge and wash from him completely the dust of every day. He needs to forget temporarily the grind of study and the whirl of his petty activities among family surroundings, in the luxury of plum pudding debauches, and playing the social lion in his home town...