Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they set out for home; but each turned back for a minute in an affectionate farewell to the camp. The first mile of the road was finished with quiet conversation, at an ordinary pace; but as they neared the village Yung's steps grew gradually slower; nor did Tue insist upon haste. They were silent for five minutes, then Yung said suddenly, "I wish this might go on forever...
...called men at once upon entering College. And surely there is nothing manly in putting aside all one's instincts of propriety and turning rowdy, - especially when such conduct compromises not merely one's self, but the whole College. The upper classes would indeed have a right to insist upon the non-recurrence again of the outrageous behavior that has heretofore signalized these occasions. But we believe rather in trusting to '85's sense of what is decent and just. Let her only have strength of mind enough to take the initiative in foregoing this discreditable practice of former Freshman...
...defend the latter gentleman in the use of language which he doubtless regrets sincerely as do we ourselves; we do not propose to assent to any errors which the New Shakspere Society may have made; but despite the Advocate, and despite Mr. Algernon Charles Billingsgate Bilgewater Swinburne, we still insist that the Society has earned for itself the gratitude, not the abuse, of all Shaksperian students whose opinions are worth any thing at all. We fear that our cotemporary has failed in the present instance to display "that firm grasp of the subject in hand, and that broad but minute...
That Harvard was justified in the position that she took is admitted by Professor Wheeler, of Yale, the umpire of last year's race. "It would be improper," said he, "for either college to insist upon the other going to any place where good quarters could not be obtained, and if the Harvard quarters are such as represented, New London is out of the question...
...meeting of the Base Ball Club held Monday night, Captain Coolidge said that he should insist upon more thorough training by the Nine, and that in April he intended to have the men walk in the morning instead of going to prayers...