Word: sportsman
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...speech, Mr. Lothrop Withington '11 declared he had seen few Harvard teams with greater potential power. He praised the playing of Captain Aldrich last year and the sportsman-like manner in which the defeated Yale men acted...
...understood to be no disgrace at all, much that is now wrong would automatically right itself. The thing of importance is to play the game for it sown sake; many game such as tennis are played very largely for the purpose of enjoyment. And just so far as any sportsman begins to feel that he must win, will the game lose some of its enjoyment; and just so far will he become less of a sportsman...
...understood to be no disgrace at all, much that is now wrong would automatically right itself. The thing of importance is to play the game for its own sake; many games such as tennis are played very largely for the purpose of enjoyment. And just so far as any sportsman begins to feel that he must win, will the game lose some of its enjoyment; and just so far will he become less of a sportsman...
...help to perpetuate the memory of a great athlete and sportsman by means of the game which he loved best was an act of exquisite tact. Everything possible was done to preserve the Baker tradition--even the officials of the game were former associates of "Hobey's". But aside from the tribute to the individual the game was a courteous indication of good will to the University. The Princeton Triangle Club's performance for the benefit of the Harvard endowment drive, the Harvard hockey team's benefit game for the Baker Rink, are evidences of good feeling between the Universities...
This energy backed by an unflinching sincerity is the outstanding feature in the life of these two men. It made Roosevelt a great stateman, writer, scientist, sportsman, soldier. It made him the most beloved and the most hated of any public man in America. This restless dynamic spirit carried him from the White House to the jungles of Africa and South America, from ranching on the western praries to leading his men in action at San Juan Hill. His fearless Americanism in the Venizuelan trouble with Germany made the Kaiser exclaim afterwards, at the height of his power, that Roosevelt...