Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...magnanimity had been tried and found warning. She never claimed that the conventions have been broken nor would she accept the remedies of grievances because she claimed the right of suzerainty. Finally, discord has been made by England and harmony was not aimed at, as the Harvard speakers insist...
...Reeves opened for Princeton. He stated at the outset that Princeton would insist that this debate was over a question of fact, and that no mere assertions or theories would go unchallenged. Our present immigration restrictions, according to him, are founded upon an economic basis. This is rightly so. If a man comes to this country with an ability and a willingness to work, we can make no indictment against him. We have great undeveloped rescurces in this country that we must depend upon immigrants to develop. Our present restrictions are keeping out the most undesirable of possible immigrants. Since...
...scatter, one skirt after another would catch and the enclosure would very likely soon look more like a morgue than like a fete. We have had the Tree for a long time and have never had a fire, but every year there are a number of drunks there who insist on smoking and who might easily leave a lighted match where it could set a muslin skirt afire. That this danger is considerable, perhaps more considerable than we realize, seems possible from the fact that I have heard from several different sources of graduates, who had got very nervous...
...editorial in the December issue of the Monthly expresses a complaint felt only too strongly by the readers of our college periodicals. As the writer says, why is it that men insist on choosing subjects with which they have no real sympathy? The result is occasionally creditable it is true, but lacks individuality and a lacquered effect is only too common. At intervals we find a man writing of truly personal experience and with sympathy; his theme may be well worn, but the well telling of it makes an old story new, and after all the best things in literature...
Professor Palmer in his speech brought out the fact that in college, the instructors sought to give while it was the students' share to take; that the student was treated as a mature man, willing to work for his own pleasure. "We insist," he said, "that you do what you do here, for yourselves, not for us. We want to see every man pushing forward in pursuit of his own distinct interests...