Word: compact
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...make its columns the medium for their announcements. Its first function is to give the news. No consideration of advertising should encroach on the news. The chief effort of the editors should be to collect as much real news as possible and to present it in the most compact and orderly fashion. This seems a truism; but anyone who has read the CRIMSON for many years, will agree that, like other truisms, it needs to be constantly repeated. For there is too seldom issued a copy of any college paper which may serve as a model in the three requisites...
...show" that brings beggars "astraddle of the guys what's got the dough." I question also whether the dialect is used quite consistently throughout. In any case, it seems regrettable that the phrase "bunched up" should occur twice in fourteen lines. E.E. Hunt's sonnet, "Cloud-land," is compact and musical, and induces in the reader a mood as sympathetic as the writer's with a rustic scene in the mountains. I could wish there were less alliteration, and a less conspicuous contrast between the homeliness of "celebrate" and "move along," and the ornateness of "snow-jacinth" or the elegance...
...Harvard Illustrated Magazine, Mr. Clapp's, Mr. McKenna's, and Mr. Groton's, are likely to secure the attention not only of Harvard graduates and undergraduates but of other readers. Lovers of "the national game" will doubtless turn first to Mr. McKenna's "Baseball Outlook for 1907", a compact and concise statement of the conditions at Yale and Princeton, and a sanguine analysis of those at Harvard. If Mr. McKenna is right,--and that he is, is devoutly to be wished,--Harvard men may conclude their reading with a sigh of satisfaction, and, like the Coach, need lose on sleep...
...advantages of this policy are represented in the current number by a set of short but extremely interesting articles on the planet Mars by four eminent men of science. Professor W. H. Pickering, whose portrait forms the frontispiece, contributes a compact descriptive article on Mars and its canals, the effect of which is curiously modified by Professor A. E. Douglass of the University of Arizona, who explains away most of the canals by giving them a psychological origin in the sensory apparatus of the observer. Professor E. S. Morse writes interestingly of "What the Martians Might Say of Us," reversing...
...oppression no secession could have occurred, and the real cause for that military and political conflict of ten years' duration was the existence of negro slavery in a democratic republic. The first issue of the war, however, was not slavery, but the maintenance of the Union, the federal compact established under the Constitution of 1787. At the north it was claimed that the Union must be upheld, even with slavery left untouched, or still worse, guaranteed from political extinction in future. At the south it was less confidently claimed that the Union must be dissolved because we had elected...