Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen, and be men! Let not your honor be thus stained. Exterminate all who venture thus to outrage and insult you! What effrontery is this, to suggest that part of the space now occupied by you be devoted hereafter to the use of paltry base-ball players? Rather insist on your rights and see to it that a portion of that room now called the "cage" be yielded to your more important demands, and be used henceforth as storage room, now very necessary, for crippled nine-pins and rheumatic balls. See to it that you do not allow the gymnasium...
...Whereas, The Harvard Base-ball Club, recognizing the crippled condition of the Lowell nine to-day, caused by the sickness of three of its members, did so very generously offer and insist upon postponing the match game, and desired to play a practice game instead...
...mode of exercise." To which Capt. Cook replies: "It must be true, indeed, that the enforcement of correct principles of rowing has had much to do with bringing about the victories in which Yale's standard has been carried so valiantly to the fore. But, while you so generously insist on giving so much credit to the 'Cook Stroke,' let me remind you that the most scientific principles would have gone for nothing without the skill and brawn, the splendid discipline and the unswerving confidence of the men in the value of these principles...
...gist of our position is, that, if we yield to Yale again this year, we may as well be prepared to yield to her for all time to come, which we have no notion of doing. The conditions on which we insist this year have been copied with minuteness, and as a matter of principle, from the conditions which Yale saw fit to force on us last year; after this year, if Yale wishes to do so, the arrangements between the two colleges will be a matter for mutual concession, but Yale must first make good her unfair extortions...
...farcical if they are not. With this gloomy outlook before us, the least the stewards can do is to make everything go off as quickly as possible, and to see that there are no unnecessary delays between the events. One more thing also they can do. They can insist that the wrestlers be given a hold before the patience of the audience is utterly exhausted. If the wrestling could be made short, sharp and decisive like the sparring, it would become one of the features of the meetings instead of being one of the things which are inevitable and that...