Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harold I. Laski, who addressed last light's meeting at Fay Hall is an instructor in or lecturer upon American Government or Soviet Government. The parents of the sons entrusted to his tutelage are entitled to know. The followers from Maine to California of straight Americanism will, we think, insist upon knowing...
...alcohol, a slower but no less genuine poison than those mentioned, be sold and quaffed and dignified by custom and tradition as promoting good fellowship? Why in the name of common sense, should we not drink laudanum, "blue vitriol," dilute sulphuric acid and other such beverages if we insist on having wine, beer, whiskey, brandy and gin? The acknowledged poisons would merely hasten the result by a few years...
...physical as well as mental training, and left to the student the choice of taking them or leaving them; and some few champions of the old order decry this latest move, saying that upon the individual and not upon the College falls the stigma of an illdeveloped body. They insist that Harvard should not become a "Glorified boarding school," but should encourage individuality and discourage the "type" by allowing its students a free rein...
...School from other colleges have spoken to the present writer with approbation of the CRIMSON's editorials, while condemning certain other features. As for "vapidity," "straddling," let those answer who remember the CRIMSON's pacifist days, or the attacks on crew policy, or the CRIMSON's insist ant demand for war long before it was declared. Some of these editorial stands aroused antagonism which has not yet died out. Before the war, a committee of graduates collected a fund and sent selected men to flying schools to learn aviation. One of the men chosen was a CRIMSON editor, but after...
...their preliminary announcement, the editors said "The Review will be a journal of wide range, and will include, in particular, adequate discussion of great international questions. It will be animated by a spirit of progress, will welcome and promote needed projects of social improvement, but will insist upon the maintenance of those things which must be preserved if the nation is to remain a people of self-reliant freemen. The publication of "The Review' has been actuated by a recognition of the urgent need at this time of a journal of serious discussion which should resist the unthinking drift towards...