Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Sophomore. This is unfair; the "verdant Freshman" has become a College tradition, and the Advocate is too respectable to break down wantonly so venerable a superstition. On the whole, the aim of the number is most commendable; it is only to be regretted that so many of our writers insist on following the plan of presenting as the whole of College life its most objectionable side
...editorials in the current number of the Advocate suggests that the University insist upon a higher standard of scholarship than is at present required. The chief argument presented in favor of a change is that the prevailing rules do not demand enough of the kind of work that is permanently valuable to the student...
Finally, there is one danger which outweighs all others. It is the danger to international arbitration. Once establish the precedent that the awards of arbitrary boards can be interfered with and you deal a death blow to arbitration. The United States has insisted on the power to interpret arbitration of South American disputes. By what right does she now insist upon the power to interpret arbitration awards to suit here own selfish interests? The affirmative has taken its stand because we believe that in the lives of men and of nations, personal, selfish considerations must yield to the call...
...must insist that hereafter every man shall report to me daily in the squad to which he is assigned, or else send me an excuse for each days absence...
...Rule of Free Trade." Though the presumption is always against protection, he said, reliable economists have discussed several important exceptions to the rule of free trade. The first of these, protection for the sake of defense, must be settled largely by military experts, but the economist may insist that economic effects, such as the diversion of capital to less productive industries, be carefully considered. Protection to counteract foreign bounties, which constitutes the second exception, is apt to be carried too far, and protection of retaliation is likely to result in loss to the country which undertakes it. The tariffs...