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Show CHAPTER XTV.DAILY LIFESYCHOLOGICALLY speaking, one brushes daily in Utonia against three varieties of citizens: the grind, the never-grind and he who is neither the one nor the other. The first is abnormal, and therefore interesting; the second class is unbalanced, and therefore interesting; the third class is rational and normal, and therefore unworthy of further notice. Outside of class, the daily life of the grind is spent in the library-he haunts the library. In the early morning he stands waiting for the librarian to appear. At noon he eats condensed and compressed foods to gain more time for study. At the end of the day, he condemns the five o'clock closing rule and then hurries to his lodgings to get an early start at his night's work. He never misses a lecture nor cuts a class. He always appreciates his professors, and weeps tears of regret over a B ¦¦'-. He never attends social events or athletic performances, nor reads the Utonian paper.The life of the never-grind is a busy one,-what with promenading the boulevard, inventing plausible explanations to papa for the rapid disappearance of the monthly allowance, coaxing more money from home, avoiding High Chief Prexy's audience chamber, keeping coin in his pocket, suitable clothes on his back, his social calendar full; in a word, having a mighty good, easy time and keeping himself a citizen of Utonia.If the never-grind is a woman, she spends her time looking fashionable and alluring, and getting herself escorted to everything social that takes place in the Republic. She way-lays the never-grind man in the halls and on the campus, and of course he always knows where to find her to get way-laid, then together they just stroll.Utonia could not get along without its grinds, and its never-grinds. They are foils which serve to set off the safe and sane, and lead to the Republic's appreciation of the neither-nors.179 |