Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...something must be done to preserve America and American ideals, let it be done--and done openly and honorably with exclusion for none and justice for all. Only by clean and upright means Ian any lasting good be accomplished...
Football has a place and an important place in school and college life. We must see that it is kept in its place. Above all, the lovers of the game must see to it that a good clean sport shall not be open to the suspicion of becoming a semi-professional business...
...they know are ignoble. It is to their credit that most of them have sense enough as well as courage enough to stand against it. We believe the great body of alumni will approve this stand and that it will also have the approval of all the lovers of clean sport whose good opinion is worth having
...There are two things that every university can and ought to do to create a higher tone in athletics. The first is that every university. . . . must make absolutely sure that its representatives stand for clean sport on every athletic field. . . We at Princeton wish above everything else in our athletic relations to other universities that it may be said of our teams "There is a body of clean sportsmen.' . . . We must be sure here at Princeton that we have absolutely unquestioned amateurs on our teams. There should not be any subsidizing of athletics . . . ." All this is pertinent, and preventative steps...
...same time avoiding amateur sport with which he has little in common. If he is an amateur he will follow the second plan--hundreds are doing just that--avoiding professional athletics with which he is not in sympathy for the sake of learning and the gain derived from clean sports...