Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very few - that the "nine," the "eleven," and the "four" or the "eight" form a small proportion of the college; and that hence the manifest evils of inter-collegiate contests are not to be endured for the sake of the benefit done to a few athletes. They insist that the evils are many and positive. Large concourses of students gather in the cities subject to all the excitement of college rivalry, to all the temptations offered by college friends, and to all the opportunities of a holiday in a large city. These are, clearly enough, grave objections...
...past time is entirely erroneous" and so on. Space would not permit (if inclination would) an extended review of this forty-page volume. As an instance of the exact position the reviewer holds, the following quotation may be taken: "How long," he laments, "how long will Harvard and Yale insist upon being the sleepy hollows of political economy, from which pupils emerge with ideas that have been obsolete for a century?" It is needless to remark that the italics are not those of Mr. Dixwell...
...awarded. A man, in order to receive the benefit of such aid, must distinguish himself in his studies, and this can he done only in two ways: either he must have extraordinary natural ability, or he must show himself capable of most diligent application. Now will the HERALD insist that a man possessing these qualities "cannot do much to ennoble his profession?" I say the influence a man shall have on his profession depends on the man himself and not upon the manner of entering that profession. The man who attains rank in his profession by "his own native talents...
...much as any to unnecessary "slugging," but our observation at the last few winter meetings has been that much of the best and most legitimate sparring has been hissed. A sparring match consists in something more than "squaring off" and occasionally exchanging a blow, and if the spectators insist in hissing every sttempt to go beyond this we cannot hope to see much good work...
...Because these so excepted receive religious training at home? But in a large majority of cases they do not. Statistics collected by the college itself show this to be a fact. Do not the regulations show a huge partiality in this respect? To be consistent should not the college insist that compulsory religious exercises be carried on in the homes of those who, while in college, live at home? Or, perhaps, more strictly, should it not forbid any to enter college but those coming from homes where such observances are enforced? I fear that my interrogatives have run away with...