Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshwomen did not care to carry canes, but did insist upon wearing back hair, it was agreed that at 4 o'clock on Monday last the two classes should meet on the college campus, and that one freshwoman, to be chosen by her classmates, should appear with back hair in position. The sophomores were then to make a united effort to deprive the freshwoman of her back hair, and the other freshwomen were to defend her, and upon the issue of the struggle was to depend the right of the freshwomen to wear back hair during the rest...
...second place, has the conference committee done wisely in extending its restrictions into such matters of detail as e. g. to prohibit all contests with non-collegiate amateurs, and to insist upon regulating such a comparatively unimportant point (unimportant as concerns the effect of the resolutions in general) as the length of intercollegiate boat-races? At no point in this discussion has student opinion been directly consulted, at least in any such way as to affect the final decision and therefore we do not know that it s worth while to discuss this point now that everything is practically settled...
...Arnold's remars upon Oxford form a fitting close to this article. "We, in Oxford, brought up amidst the beauty and sweetness of that beautiful place, have not failed to seize one truth,-the truth that beauty and sweetness are essential characters of a complete human perfection. When I insist on this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this one sentiment for beauty and sweetness, our sentiment against hideousness and rawness, has been at the bottom of our attachment to so many beaten causes, of our opposition to so many triumphant movements...
Princeton, as well as Harvard, will probably insist on essential modifications of the public opinion, may be brought to the same point of view. However much gratitude we may feel to Yale for her recent courtesy, we must not forget that it is she, who, by her numerous "improvements" of which she so proudly boasts, has brought the game to be what it is, and has given a name to the present style of game...
...will probably result in her expulsion from the association. With the best of feelings toward Columbia, it would be impossible for the association to retain a member whose engagements are made on so unreliable a basis. Harvard and Princeton both, will probably feel bound, in justice to themselves, to insist on the withdrawal of the New York team. The only allowable excuse a team has for such conduct is a written refusal signed by two members of the faculty. As Columbia has not this excuse to offer and as the game was on the regular schedule-not the case with...