Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...refusal to play on the scheduled date, we think the freshmen can justly claim a most unfair treatment at the hands of their Yale rivals. However this may be, we hope the game will not eventually be given up. Our freshmen have the right in the matter, and should insist on playing on such dates as will be most convenient to them next week. If the game is not played, the entire blame can be placed on Yale...
...absence for such a short period as three days seemed to be considered allowable. Whether or not the student was fulfilling those purposes, was supposed to be indicated by the result of his examinations. Still, the faculty, while allowing considerable liberty to the student, always retained the right to insist upon his attending recitations, if they saw fit to do so. This seems to us to be all that has been conceded in the way of voluntary recitations...
...Yale freshmen decided Thursday to insist upon having the game with our freshmen played at New Haven, on May 24. Comments are unnecessary...
...ambiguous contemporary, the Yale News, again puts us to some trouble to comprehend its remarks on the subject of where the freshman game shall be played. It states, after quoting a sentence or two from our editorial to the effect that the Harvard freshman nine ought to insist on playing the first game here, that "it is evident, however, that the HERALD-CRIMSON speaks 'out of the heart,' and it occurs to us, remembering the sad assembly at the New Haven House corner on the occasion of that game last spring, that they may be speaking 'out of the pocket...
...understand that the Yale freshmen object to playing the first game with our freshmen in Cambridge. We wish to say to the management of our team that it should insist upon the first game being played here and that any reasons for playing the game at New Haven must be very powerful ones to induce them to yield. For many years the first freshmen game has been played at New Haven and the time has certainly come for a change. This is a great advantage for a team to play its first game on its own grounds and among...