Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that the two universities come to an understanding and meet hereafter on terms which are unquestionably equal; but such considerations are, for the present, out of order. Harvard was aware of the situation and consented to the debte. If this University had won it might now be well to insist upon a satisfactory agreement in regard to the question of faculty coaching; but, under the circumstances, it is best to have nothing...
...policy of the Class Day Committee has been, ever since a change of plans was necessary in the Tree exercises, to see what changes the Corporation would insist on, and, then, to submit the new form of exercises to the class and let them choose it or some other plan...
...committee of the Corporation insist on the abolishment of the scrimmage for the flowers on Class Day. What is the full import of this resolution? Does it not amount to a condemnation of the whole ceremony at the Tree, and the blotting out of the distinguishing feature of Harvard Class...
...events the Corporation should at least allow the student body the opportunity of remedying the abuses to which they have objected before they insist upon abolishing a custom which is so intimately associated with the college life of the past, and so dearly treasured by the undergraduates (and we believe also by the graduates) of the present...
...rational conclusion, or more lower our dignity in our own eyes, than to approach such questions in a feverish heat, or to let professions of patriotism or savage praise of war frighten us away from a deliberate search for the right? It is to resist such impulses, and to insist on a critical study of all questions, that universities exist...