Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more than one man whose mind, for the moment, was bent on "grinding." It is not very soothing to the nerves to hear a wrestling match going on over one's head; to hear a long struggle, as indicated by the falling of chairs and tables, and then to know, from an awful thud and a jar which almost shakes the globes from the chandeliers, that one man has gone down and is only waiting for breath to renew the contest. As for singing and whistling, we cannot all be good first tenors, and it is said that only...
Student (to servant at the door). - "Miss Brown?" Servant. - "She's engaged." Student. - "I know it. I'm what she's engaged to." - Spectator...
...will be favorably received by the college at large. The Index, although an extremely unpretentious volume, contains matters that are of greatest interest to its Harvard readers; it is the means by which the achievements of the college at large and of its individual members are recorded. Whoever would know what has been accomplished by any Harvard undergraduate, or by any Harvard organization, has but to look over the Index, and there read the inevitable record. Certain pages and certain positions on the pages are significant indices of a college man's career, and often stand for several paragraphs...
...every one who knows what a grind is, least of all the grind himself. If an intermittent cloister-like life of study is what distinguishes the grind, of what use is his life? It is a preparation for greater things coming after, of course. But some grinds do not seem to have any after, except after midnight and high marks. Archimedes was the very Bayard of grinds. But he ground himself into the grave. I remember once hearing that there are grinds at New Haven who are regularly summoned to the Yale "U. 5" for taking too many courses...
...Abbott, formerly Harvard, '87, has an article in the last Williams Lit entitled, "A Girl I Know...