Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Aroni (a typical grind) H.Williams...
...GRIND...
...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...
...Undue exaltation of physical superiority. This is shown by the cases of - (a) Kelley. - (b) J. L. Sullivan. - (c) College "grand stand" players. - (d) Bad blood between amateur athletic clubs. - (e) Change in popular idea of college man who once a "grind" is now a "slugger...