Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...another column we print the Nation's review of Professor Dyer's edition of the 'Apology of Socrates.' Such a work as Professor Dyer's is a credit, not only to its editor, but to our university. It is the best possible answer to those who insist that Greek is going to the dogs here, because it is no longer required in course. It is further an excellent means to keep Greek from going to the dogs. A good text-book in the hands of a good teacher will do more than a dozen requirements to get thorough and valuable...
...difficulty seems to be finally settled. That is to say, Yale has demanded that the game be played at New Haven on Saturday, and by a telegram received from Princeton yesterday afternoon, we learn that the latter has conceded the demands made. It seems very strange that Yale should insist upon having the game played at New Haven, when all along they have declared their anxiety to play in New York. There is something mysterious about the whole affair, and one is almost led to believe that Yale fears the strength of her rush line, or the brilliancy...
...place at which be should pray to Almighty God, and that there was no duty to which it was more absurd to drive him by law under defined penalties. And yet this is what the college authorities, who are steadily converting Harvard into a university in the large sense, insist on doing. The President and Fellows unluckily do not give their reasons, but the only creditable reasons must be either the belief that God is pleased with the presence in a chapel or church of unwilling, irritated, and irreverent worshippers, brought thither by the fear of temporal punishment, and does...
...recent article on "Athletics at Athens," that reliance cannot always be placed on the athletic records of Herodotus. We are unable, at present, to deny the accuracy of the particular record, but, being unable to find it credited in the "Clipper Almanac," we are not disposed to insist upon its acceptance...
...condemned. It is quite another thing to say that our crews can get on without a paid coach. As far as the first matter is concerned, the Athletic Committee and the Graduate Committee are perhaps better qualified to judge than we are. But I maintain we should insist on being consulted, we should insist on having the facts carefully considered, as far as concerns the need of a paid coach. My private opinion is that the action of the committees is a compromise. They wish to get rid of a man. They see abuses that are not due merely...