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Show P Ml II lllll 1 THE COLLEGE ' GRIND." j He Vork, i:eonomliet and llecoiuet a ttectuae. Tho "Harvard grind" Is a term used as often in tho eollcgo circles ns any surname, Eays the lloitou Herald. Tho namo originated from the old custom men had ot getting down and wurklug hard a few days before examination. Finally, hen a fellow was known to keep up this grinding process throughout through-out tho term, ho soon went under tho caption of "grind." Tlio namo haa now becoma nn established term In Harvard life, nnd tho visitor Is now shown the grlnd'a headquarter!, tho grind's table In ourdiuiug hall, and tho grind's haunts. To sco him tu bin true light, the grind must bo hunted out tit different times of the year. I traced up ono of these fellows n year ago in the dead of winter. Ho lived in nn upntnlrn room, eight by eight feet', no stovo in tho room, no heating apparatus of any kind, for, In fact, there was not room for nnyj a small single bed across ono sldo, a bureau across tho other, and a little tablo under tho one window, lit the narrow alolo In the center thero was room but for ono chair. .'. 1 ,;..t carpet on tho lloor, u 1 . '.;ln?-o;lii:,n i ct in tlio bureau top, tin '. on tu vu 1 1' 'Oi-ra-tlom. cot. j lcii '. t'ij furnb hlnga of tho room, ltwai t '.:."; r. l'.'.r.r In a'l thoso llttlj a'i '.'- d. ' . to characteristic char-acteristic o' t'"1 H-r-'-l vom No flpo art l:i'o"ei ""t'.e I as prescribed pre-scribed thero by l'rof. Norton; no traco of bric-n-brae and crimson decoration. deco-ration. In short, It was a sort of den in which n man could "cat and bleep and havo his being." To bo sure, this was not an attractive attract-ive lodging, but, as tho occupant Informed In-formed tne, ho could study thero and tho room cost him only two dollars per week. When I vontnred tlio suggestion sug-gestion that It must ho very risky living liv-ing thero without a fire In tho dead of winter, ho said ho usually worked in ono of tho university private libraries during the day and until ten o'clock nt night. Upon seeing a small oil cook-stovo cook-stovo In ono corner I mado a great venturo upon Its uso nnd found that this student was doing his own cooking. cook-ing. I also learned that his laundry bills wcro a minimum. In short, that ho was living on one dollur nnd tlftoon cents per week, according to Ills own figures. Hero Isnraro cac, but ono not nearly near-ly as raro as might bo oxpectod at first thought, llccauso men nre students In a university docs not mako all of them nsplro to anything socially. Hero Is an actual caso whero a man turned himself into a recluso, did his own cooking nnd washing, and spent every minute grinding over books. |