Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Junior Dick, why 'grind' ye here...
...terrible midnight "grind...
...nearness of a pigsty is an absolutely new subject of complaint among the college press, and we hail it as such. The article called "He was from Harvard" is very flat, besides being extremely questionable in point of taste. We hope that the Advocate can survive the severe grind it contains. Among the items we learn that a Young Men's Infidel Association has been started, with a membership of thirty. O wicked, depraved Cornell! A pigsty in the college yard is bad enough, but an Infidel Association is far worse. What will the Niagara Index...
...eagerly, "Are many going to write this year, and who do you think the examiners will be?" In midsummer they disappear, bury themselves in some hole for the rest of the vacation, and bring back in September a pile of drearily learned manuscript, the result of the summer's grind...
...fold nobody. It has been well said of him that he is "among us, but not of us." He is in a probation or transition state, - in a sort of Purgatory, as it were. No soft electives or voluntary recitations for him, but instead of that a hard grind on his prescribed mathematics. Yet there is justice in all things; it is right that the Freshman should have three hours more of work than the Senior...