Word: insisted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...system of giving checks for hats and coats which has just been introduced at the Library is a much-needed improvement. It is a matter of regret that such a system should be needed, but if persons who visit the Library will insist on stealing hats and coats, it is better that something should be done to prevent them. Last Saturday afternoon some individual coolly walked off with two fifty-dollar overcoats; how he did it is a mystery, as he must have passed in full view of the attendant at the desk and all the persons in that part...
...races in this country. With Yale we must row in any case; with Columbia and Cornell probably. Suppose that Yale, Columbia, and Cornell were all to beat us; this would not affect our rowing Oxford, but we could not then go as "champions," on which so many seem to insist. A race for the "championship," while a very desirable thing, is by no means essential, as Oxford was not challenged to row the "champion" American crew, but simply Harvard University. This is the reason of our "indifference" about the Cornell and Columbia race. Cornell has everything to gain and nothing...
...ambitious colleges to send crews and witch the world with feats of noble oarsmanship, but we are thankful the races are held so late in the year. Were it otherwise, a crew from the Michigan University, or the Hampton College of Virginia, might win one of these races and insist upon our rowing them before setting sail for England...
...student's room is sacred from intrusion. No master or proctor can insist on entering it, whatever may be his suspicions as to proceedings inside. In this respect Oxford is ahead of Harvard. The regulations meant to discourage dissipation and immorality are directed against the temptations of the town outside the college walls. Students are rigorously restrained from frequenting public houses and saloons; this hardship, however, is mitigated by the privilege of obtaining at cost from the college stores as much wine or spirits as is desired. After all allowances are made for debaucheries in other towns, there are good...
...seems plain, then, that to insist on good reading would not be out of place on the part of the Professor; but if Mr. Child, who has probably been hardened by long tribulation, has decided to pay no attention to this point, it would still be well for those who take the elective next year to make up their minds to lighten his weight and their own, by putting a little more life into the recitations, and trying to find pleasure in what they read. It is strange that so many who think it worth while to take a course...