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...drawings. The illustration on the front page, though simple, is yet cleverly done and has the advantage of being well set off by some very appropriate rhymes. Equally good, but in a different way, is the centre-page drawing, which indeed is vivid enough to give the most confirmed grind a start. As for the figures entitled "At the Sophomore-Freshman Game," they have a grotesque realness about them which cannot escape even the most careless observer. So much for the pictures. The rest of the number is well filled with editorials pleasantly harmless, jokes not without point, and longer...
...Aroni (a typical grind) H.Williams...
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...work so as to have any considerable time to himself. The intimacies which grew up when men studied the same lessons and wrote forensics on the same subject were very close. The first duty of the undergraduate in the sixties was to make his nose reasonably comfortable on the grind stone. Few of the men then would have studied conic sections or logic if they had been left to their own choice. Few of the young men today who take pleasant courses get as good training or go out into the world with as good a preparation...
...student. It is seen from this that the amount of time devoted absolutely to work is not very large, and as the length of each term is eight weeks and vacation, all told, amounts to six months, each year, a course at Oxford need not be a very severe "grind" to a man rather inclined to take things easy. There is one restriction, however, put upon the freedom of the students, which perhaps may seem strange and amusing to the students of Harvard, where every student is almost completely his own master...