Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actually unable to meet the requirements for honors. The simple fact is that too many are content with merely satisfactory grades. A man who devotes himself to studies, and nothing else, is thought one-sided. And the opinion is not without foundation. The well known figure of the "grind" is not that of a balanced man in the Greek sense. But there are many examples in Harvard to prove that one may study, and even make Group I, without becoming a "grind". It is the undergraduate practice to honor those men who contribute some leadership in outside activities...
...easy for a man who wishes to loaf to take the "grind" for the prototype of scholarship. He does this as a sop to his conscience so that he may say: "I will none of it." But the general student body is not deceived. The "grind" is recognized for what he is. So too is the student who, while maintaining his high scholarship, gives part of himself to his fellows in active leadership. No honor is thought too great...
...equally applicable to both types. Greater will be the desire for high grades if the University will make more coveted that combination of scholarship and active leadership which marks real preparation for greatest usefulness in life. It will also promote the same end to take away from the "grind", as well as from those who attain eminence in outside activities alone, some of their false glory. High honor is due, not to the man who is solely a scholar, nor to the man who is solely an athlete, but to him who can combine high scholarship with some form...
Coach Haines will inaugurate a new training method, which does away with the distastful three weeks grind on the machines. All candidates will work on the machines on Monday. Tuesday will see the experienced men in shells, under the direction of A. J. Hobson Jr. '24 and J. L. Hoover '24, and they will continue on the river until ice forms. The inexperienced candidates will have two weeks of machine work, after which they will be transferred to the "Leviathan", the recently-built barge which seats 20 men. As soon as they become proficient in the handling of sweeps they...
Came a call for the 10,000-metre cross-country grind. The sweltering crowd roared greeting to the 39 who pawed the mark, then settled back to wonder how the 39 could possibly endure such searing heat. Out of the Stadium went the runners, to dusty roads, to sunbaked fields. Half an hour later Nurmi's lithe effortless figure came through the Marathon Gate, followed shortly by the indefatigable Ritola and by Earl Johnson (stalwart U. S. Negro), by a sun-stricken, staggering, vomiting, fainting rabble. Only 15 of the 39 finished. Just outside the Stadium many lay prostrate...