Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...football rules committee has this year drawn up as a preface to the new book a "Football Code," in which higher standards of play are discussed. The committee is trying to bring a spirit of sportsmanship and fair play into the game by interpreting plays from the honest rather than the "anything to win" viewpoint...
...belief that many of the perplexing and disagreeable problems of eligibility take their origin from this multiplication of expensive coaching staffs, and extravagant paraphernalia. It is impossible to devise or fully enforce eligibility rules which will cover all cases of so-called professionalism unless there is a high spirit of honor among the candidates for teams. This spirit cannot be best fostered in an atmosphere of lavish expenditure, now considered necessary, owing to the nature of the rivalry above referred to. We should like to see Yale, in the near future, inaugurate a system of restraint upon such expenditures...
Material and coaches we have, and when we back our teams with a determination to help them in every possible way, instead of a spirit of over-confidence and indifference, we may have good grounds to hope that we will come through a very difficult season with the best of possible results...
...maintenance of that division, in away which should as little as honestly possible hamper the laborers in their respective fields, did not, by this advocacy, imply any beneficent love for the type of professor which President Meiklejohn censured. They proposed certain practical measures; Dr. Meikeljohn has proposed the proper spirit in which those measures should be approached. It is unfortunate that he either appeared or intended to appear in antagonism to the association's report. Boston Transcript...
...free, irresponsible spirit of college men shows itself most conspicuously in an utter disregard for the appearance of college grounds and buildings. It is not unusual to see a man walk through the Yard on his way to a nine o'clock, tearing up his morning's mail and scattering the bits of paper over the grass. Or a student will bring a newspaper to some recitation and leave it crumpled up on the floor. These are trifling instances of carelessness, perhaps, but the results are untidy recitation rooms and slovenly looking grounds...