Possible Clues:

• Dreary routine, training drill team
• Monotonous routine work, as on wheel of old
• Starting to study a philosopher can be a drudge
• Study economics at last for punishment
• Laborious routine
• Boring routine; old rotary device
• For punishment one might have to study econmics like this
• Mild alert broke the day-to-day grind
• Walk and move aimlessly in boring routine
• Hard drudgery could be mild later