Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...primary purpose of this Handbook of Graduate Courses is to furnish in compact form accurate information that will be sought for by advanced students. If that result is attained, the Handbook justifies its existence. Such students will consult it to learn what institutions and what professors offer courses in the subjects they wish to pursue; what has been the academic career of those professors; what amount of time is asked for each course; what numbers of Graduate Students have been registered in the specified departments; what fees are required of Graduate students; what Fellowships, Scholarships, and other pecuniary aids...
...strange thing to find in an undergraduate. But tenderly as this budding humility should be fostered, the crisis that has suddenly come in the life of the sport of football makes it desirable that all the friends of the game, - among whom the undergraduates are the most compact and enthusiastic body, - should fight for the game sturdily and without yielding, even if the growth of this seemly undergraduate modesty be checked. For the question is not alone between the Faculty and the students; it is besides, between the Faculty and a very large body of graduates, many of them...
Harvard is using rather more styles of play. The rush line players are more often called back and made to run with the ball or help interference. Harvard's interference is open, Yale's is compact, though Harvard's has thus far worked more perfectly...
...varsity succeeded in making three touchdowns during the twenty minutes the game lasted. The playing was very uncertain. At times the 'varsity would gain fifteen or twenty yards by a compact interference, and again their backs would be downed with loss. This was due to the fact that each player does not yet understand his part in the work of blocking off. This fault can be done away with only by practice...
...only one short half of about ten minutes on account of the game tomorrow with Brown. John Cranston was out on the field and spent his time in teaching the centre men to open up holes for the backs. Emmons and Waters gave all their attention to getting a compact interference which should start quickly and keep together...