Blood, Sweat, and Tears, or, Hard Work Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

    One of my freshman essays in the fall of 1959 at Davidson College treated the theme that I    dubbed “E for Effort.” Based on my elementary school grading whereby E was for Excellent, S  for Satisfactory, and U for Unsatisfactory, I praised the ethic of hard work by concluding    that, if...