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Campus Life: undergraduate cultures from the end of the eighteenth century to the present choose

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[US] in H.L. Horowitz Campus Life 179: By senior year, if I was still a ‘grind,’ it was no longer for consolation [...] for me it was unadulterated rapture.
at grind, n.
[US] H.L. Horowitz Campus Life 181: The high school Harrys [...] who dominated athletics.
at high-school harry (n.) under high, adj.1
[US] H.L. Horowitz Campus Life 183: The large majority of students devoted themselves to studying and getting their sheepskins.
at sheepskin, n.
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