Word: compactness
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Night gave Hooker an opportunity to concentrate his army on a more compact line meager to Chancellorsville itself. In the morning, Sunday, a second desperate attack was made by the Confederates, which compelled Hooker to abandon his position and withdraw, so as to defend the road in his rear leading to the river. Here, night again brought him relief. From this last position Lee still seemed determined to drive him where his own attention was drawn aside by the movements of Sedgwick in his rear. This general had received orders from his chief to move around and meet...
...precept they suggest to young men that it is expedient to get thorough training for professional or active life. Since about 300 young men are now graduated yearly at the university, and are dispersed hence far and wide over the Union, and since the country becomes constantly more compact through the rapid extension and improvement of railroads and telegraphs, so that the situation of the university upon the eastern edge of the continent is less and less an obstacle to its growth, it is to be expected that the proportion of its students from beyond New England will continue...
...life give any information about himself for publication. In 1838 he published "A Greek Grammar for the Use of Learners," which reached a third edition in 1847, and in 1862 had attained a sale of 40,000 copies. Reviewers spoke very highly of it. While writing English that was compact and pure to a surprising degree, the author, being a modern Greek, had a living connection with the ancient language which gave a certainly and ease to his treatment and explanation of grammatical structure. C. C. Felton said of it in the North American Review, that he thoroughly commended...
...give its judgment, based upon the verdict of fact. As to the grade of lawbreaking, if such an act has been committed. The president can in no case impose a heavier penalty than that assigned to the grade fixed by the jury. The two parties to the compact are the faculty and the undergraduates, and a three-fourths vote is required for withdrawing consent to the agreement. The details of the plan have been elaborated with admirable clearness, and the experiment will begin under the most favorable conditions. A conservative college like Bowdoin in trying such an experiment contributes importantly...
...Harpoot, Armenia, and a bachelor of laws from Cambridge University, England, appears among the specials. The summary shows, in exact numbers, 203 seniors, 209 juniors, 207 sophomores, 263 freshmen and 46 specials, a total of 928 in the college proper. In the list of courses a closer and more compact arrangement and smaller type makes a pleasing change. Semetic languages and Sanskrit and Zend loom up in a very formidable manner. The descent to freshman studies next following, however, like that to Avernus, is easy - a statement that is perhaps equivocal. Those ancient deceits - the four tables of estimated annual...