Word: compact
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...difference between Yale and Harvard is well brought out in their catalogue. Yale is still an old-fashioned college, overshadowed to some extent by Congregationalism, compact and a strong force for education. It is a college from which men are sent forth with the stamp of their training impressed upon them. Harvard is broad and progressive, but under its present administration a certain amount of educational force must be lost. A strong scholarly nature will get rounded and polished by a Harvard education, while at Yale he may be in danger of becoming narrowed in his sphere of activity...
Wright and Ditson have issued a compact and neat edition of Walter Camp's foot-ball rules for this year...
...used to aid the navy and the other organizations in the union, which have to depend upon subscriptions for support. It is obvious that this consolida-would not work to advantage unless all the associations joined and should not be entered into under any other considerations; but a compact of all the athletic interests bound by a sound constitution could not fail to be both economical and beneficial to the college...
...secretary and treasurer. Wm. J. Cook, class of '89, captain of the team, spoke in favor of Princeton withdrawing from the present intercollegiate league, and uniting with Harvard and Yale in a new one. Prof. Johnson was introduced, and advocated the plan for the purpose of making a more compact league, associating the three leading universities more closely, formulating good rules and eliminating undesirable features. Capt. Larkin of the base-ball nine and others made strong speeches in favor of the proposition. R. B. Bradford, class of '87, introduced a resolution that the delegates to the convention of the intercollegiate...
...DENISON, Pres.Kuno Franche has selected the following pieces of Faust to read this evening in Sever 11. 1, Prologue in Heaven; 2, Faust's Soliloquy; 3, The First Meeting of Faust and Mephistophcles; 4, Faust's Compact with Mephistophcles; 5, Faust's death...