Word: insist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...course it is impossible to reform everything at once, but it is not unreasonable to insist that all possible measures be taken for an immediate beginning. We therefore commend the Advocate's article and hope with the reviewer that "it may reach the right ears...
...Faculty and athletic committee insist upon abolishing winter intercollegiate sports, no doubt for the first year an attempt will be made at intracollegiate sport; but such a form of competition has never been a distinct success, for the reason that such victories that might be gained are never satisfying to the healthy-minded undergraduate. The satisfaction of contact and occasional victory in honest rivalry make intercollegiate contests interesting, and as soon as the chief motive for competing is absent, the effect will be evident...
...Some kind of progress in football we demand today. Undergraduates and graduates should carefully consider which of several possible radical changes is the best, and having arrived at a majority conclusion through the university publications, or in a general meeting of the members of the Harvard Athletic Association, should insist that their Athletic Committee conform to that conclusion and carry out conscientiously whatever reforms Harvard men decree. C. W. CATE...
These grafters--for no other name suits them as well--would bitterly resent being classed with the multitude of political parasites who besiege a successful candidate for office. They insist that they are merely claiming their rights, and cannot understand the attitude of men with equally strong claims who are content to sit by and receive what they deserve. We do not intend to urge men who have been treated with obvious unfairness to refrain mistakes. But if every malcontent would weight his claims thoughtfully before presenting them, and act upon the promptings of his sense of justice, he would...
...that they afford only a comparatively few men helpful exercise, and yet by this single, narrow recommendation, more Harvard men than participate in training for any two of the major teams are deprived of their opportunity to enter sport. It is indeed a near-sighted policy, to blindly insist upon the payment of the Stadium debt to the exclusion of improvements and extensions so obviously necessary. We realize that the hands of the present Athletic Committee are tied, but we hope when the new Committee assumes control, it will assert its better judgment, and ask the Governing Board to reconsider...