Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are those who insist that Dr. Hamlin really cares nothing about investigating the effect of diet upon his pupils, but that his object in setting up a collegiate weighing-machine is to substitute weighing for the old-fashioned methods of examination. The weighing-machine will afford, in some respects, a fair test of the progress which the students have made in the higher studies-such as base ball and rowing-and Dr. Hamlin may intend to assign collegiate honors to the students who succeed in training themselves down to the best possible weight. There is a good deal that...
...greatest change ever introduced into the game, and in these days, when an old-time straight pitcher would be knocked out of the box in one inning, there are a good many claimants for the credit of originating it. College men, with the exception of those from Harvard, always insist that Avery brought it to light at Yale, while the Harvard men, who naturally would refuse to see a curve of two feet in a Yale pitcher's delivery, incline to the opinion that Mann, of Princeton, was first on the diamond with it. Harvard's men have grounds...
...correspondent on the subject of the mile walk entirely misunderstood our remarks on the contest of Saturday last. While we still insist that the time made by the handicapped man was poor, we do not wish to convey the impression that he is not a proper man to train for the event. Yale records will hardly do as a standard of comparison, as Yale is notoriously backward in the way of field athletics. What we meant to imply was that as our prospects for the event are not particularly encouraging, it would be well for the association to train...
Perhaps, hereafter, Harvard College will be good enough to tell the people of Massachusetts whom to vote for for governor. - [New York Graphic.] Cart before the horse, as usual. Perhaps the people will be good enough not to insist upon having their favorites LL. D - d by Harvard. The college has its "rights as well as the people." [Republican...
...other college will be induced to follow Harvard's example. While there was a good prospect of the anti-professional rule becoming general, we were willing to put up with a good deal of temporary inconvenience in order to bring about the accomplishment of that result. We have always insisted that professional influences ought to be kept out of amateur athletics as far as possible. But there is such a thing as carrying the policy of exclusion too far. For Harvard to insist upon this policy after it has been abandoned by all other colleges is simply to invite defeat...