Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...taking any action. It is an open secret that such a statement as was desired was written by the Harvard captain and that he was dissuaded from sending it by the Harvard officials. The other course was to call the Harvard captain's attention to the charges and insist that Harvard's position with regard to them should be fully and fairly stated before football was played again. The latter course, as being the most courteous, was taken, and Captain Thorne's letter, referred to as "famous" by the Harvard Athletic Committee was written before any challenge was received...
...Dartmouth team had adopted the Yale rules, but a compromise was made. Dartmouth did not insist on having only three men behind the line when in possession of the ball-in other words, allowed more than three to participate in the interference from the moment the ball was shapped. Harvard, on the other hand, agreed to leave out of calculation the rule relating to fair catches. According to the Harvard rule, the one making a fair catch cannot run with the ball...
...rumor in this case, as usual, is in exaggeration of the truth. This, however, is from the point. We do not wish to urge attendance at the games as we might, on the grounds that the merits of the players have been misrepresented. What we wish is to insist on the point of honor which it should be with students to give wholehearted encouragement to the team not at the time when they need it least, but when they need it most. The neglect to buy a season ticket implies the intention to attend few games, and such intention this...
...more peculiarly to Harvard men than does Holmes Field; yet they are apparently to lose the latter before the loss is necessary. Students will probably always be reluctant to acknowledge the necessity for change; at least, then, until necessity is asserted, it seems far too harsh a measure to insist on the abandonment of Holmes Field...
...improvement in the government service; the second is the more ethical advantage of an elevation of public methods and standards. He illustrated the first advantage by reference to the postal system. When we simply wish that letters should be delivered with speed and accuracy, it is obviously absurd to insist that a man should have certain views on tariff or finance. In the second place he pointed out that the offices, given out by political leaders to their henchmen, really formed a vast corruption fund, - that the offices were given to the most prominent henchmen, while the less prominent might...