Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that this extra pressure should be reduced as much as possible. Several instructors already have exempted Seniors from tests in the coming two weeks and others have extended the time limit for Seniors on term reports. If this were made a general custom the back of the pre-Divisional grind would be broken. The main objection, apparently, that has prevented such action is the fear that a precedent would be established giving the students an opening for further letting down of the bars. There seems to be no real grounds for such a fear. If a fretting horse is given...
...adversity"; but the uses of knowledge, though more difficult of fruition, are sweeter. It is a sad truth that for many men a college degree means no more than a certificate of work gone through with-a certain number of years spent in such and such a way. "Grind" as he will, the student who, parrot-like, fills his blue-books full of his professor's own phrases, is, in the final analsis, little more benefited than the one who attends classes with the same sang-forld with which he pays the Bursar. And by the same token, the great...
...lacked the necessary strength-giving constituents, or vitamins. The connection between these two facts could not be more obvious. We no longer wonder why such deference was shown to a careful of old stones; for these stones are to be set up in the heart of the college to grind the corn that will make the "pone" which will make Yale athletes grow strong again...
...comparatively high stroke yesterday will be followed by another of the same kind today. Coach Haines sent his first two crews down the length of the Basin with frequent spurts between the two. From the lower end of the Basin they were put through the long five-mile grind to the Newell Boathouse at a steady, uninterrupted pace...
...their young Gifteds may injure their precious health by too hard study. In forty years only one Nassovian has died of overstudy. Not a single member of the Faculty has so perished, says the Dean, gibing his brother Dons. In the days before universal athletics the pale and rickety "grind" may have existed. Now the man on the honor list is quite likely to have biceps like "the magnificent exaggerations of antique sculpture," and one seldom sees a pining professor unless it be in a Pullman, where he is homesick for his tennis or his golf. Health being assured, what...