Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Well, since you insist," he whispered...
...Indeed, we do not believe that the members of the Union would long maintain their interest in such proceedings. The opportunity offered to persons fond of quibbling and obstructing would be too great to be passed over by them, and time and temper would be wasted by those who insist on the fine points of Cushing's "Manual." A glance at the working of even such well-ordered legislatures as the United States Congress or the British Parliament will show how much that is disagreeable can be carried on in them, even under strictly constitutional rules. The Harvard Union...
...Club has been to concentrate all its resources on that race; and this policy has now hardened into a fixed tradition. Hence, whatever talk may be raised to the contrary by a minority of "fresh" and shortsighted enthusiasts, the experienced and sagacious majority can always be depended on to insist that the Freshmen of Yale shall never again be allowed to waste their muscle and money in meaningless and uninteresting rowing contests with the Freshmen of other colleges...
...capacity for becoming benevolent, patient, humble, and loving, depends, however, in no way on the particular creed of the individual. In times past it was quite common to insist that, in order to be virtuous, a man must entertain certain beliefs about the nature and origin of the Universe, about Immortality, Free Will, &c. Now it is different. If popular education has done any thing at all, it is to show to the satisfaction of every clear-headed thinker that one may believe that the sun stands still, and yet be a bad man; while another may believe that...
...differ from the Advocate on the action of the base-ball convention in allowing a college nine, some of whose men are professionals, to play for an amateur championship, and insist that it is establishing a bad precedent. In all intercollegiate contests it is always understood that only amateurs can compete, and the absence of the professional element in base ball heretofore should have warned these men that, by becoming members of a professional club, they ceased to be amateurs, and disfranchised themselves, so to speak. In other words, a long standing precedent becomes in effect a law. These facts...