Word: insists
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...minor one is that they do not insist as strongly as we do that the back shall be kept perfectly straight. If a man can row better so, they do not object to a slight curve of the shoulders. In the management of the slide, too, there are some differences. The Americans start their slides very fast, then slow them up about half way, and gradually come to a full stop. The Englishmen get their hands away very quickly, but slide forward slowly...
...communications should the form in which communications should be handed in for publication. In the first place the writing should be on one side of the paper only, a fact disregarded by at least one half of the men who send in contributions. Another point on which we must insist is that the writer sign his name and address though naturally not for publication unless desired. If a communication is not thus properly signed, we do not deem it worthy of consideration. If a man is not willing to let his name be known to the editors, we certainly...
Rule 3 was changed so that the winner of the toss might insist upon the choice being made by his opponent...
...rule upon the Harvard-Yale game at Springfield next fall. There is a clause in the five year agreement governing these games to the effect that they shall be played under the rules of the intercollegiate association. It seems then at first sight that Yale will insist next fall on our playing upon the same terms with which she meets Princeton, Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania; in other words that she will dictate the conditions under which Harvard shall play. Whatever motives Yale may have had in putting through these new restrictions, no one need have any fears...
...other into the contest. It is stated that the winner of the Oxford Cambridge race would be unwilling to row the winner of the Harvard-Yale race, for by so doing the championship of the world would still remain unsettled, if Cornell chose to dispute the claim and insist upon rowing the English crew herself...