Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale camp at Gales Ferry, a number of the oarsmen have turned newspapermen, and are publishing daily a paper of training camp news called "Gales Ferry Wow." The contributing oarsmen are also editors of the Yale Record and the Yale News, who have turned their hand to brightening the grind of the training camp through the medium of a humorous publication. Laughlin, stroke of the Yale crew, and also a cartoonist of considerable ability has made a decided hit with his caricatures...
...workouts before the afternoon of June 19, Coach Stevens will devote his time to polishing up minor faults, and to preserving the condition of the oarsmen. The cooler weather, and the fact that examinations are practically over will enable the entire camp to settle itself for the final training grind which ends on June...
...drama. As in the Fifth Avenue scene of "The Hairy Ape", so here in the funeral scene masks are used to intensify the impression of stifling conventionality. As in "The Beggar on Horseback", newsboys rush in selling extras. As in "All God's Chillun," the plaintive sound of the grind-organ and the hurdy-gurdy suggest the flavor of the times through popular airs. As in "The Adding Machine", the singing of "My country 'tis of thee" marks the culmination of an outburst of intolerance. The phonograph which played a poignant role in "Rain" and in "The Square...
...truth of this statement and gives prominence to President Lowell's belief that, if Harvard is to retain its supremacy, it is essential to wait sometimes several years rather than fill the faculty for a generation with good but not exceptional men. The mills of the gods grind slowly and silently, sometimes too silently, for it is seldom that the University at large is aware of the highly important and difficult work performed by the President and Fellows of Harvard College...
...will follow the advice of Bacon, who said that "Natural abilities are like plants: they need pruning by study," and he will observe that Dr. Johnson advises young men to devote themselves to books from their nineteenth to their twenty-fifth year. The abhorrence of being called a "grind," has prompted many undergraduates to change their views about studies. This word is ever present on the tongues of those who consider the College as a place in which to gain extra-curriculum distinction. Whoever stigmatises his fellow undergraduate as a "grind," should run the risk of being called a more...