Word: sportsmanship
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With the beginning of the football season each year, come the usual high score victories of large colleges over unevenly matched small ones, followed by the inevitable cry of poor sportsmanship. Yet each year the small college, for financial reasons, wants to play the large one, and the latter is more than willing to get the needed practice before the important games. This is especially necessary for those colleges which, like Harvard, have a comparatively short training period...
...only Yale graduates and undergraduates reflects a difficulty, that is equally pertinent at Harvard. Admittedly football especially and other sports in a minor way have become too much a question of finances. The spectacular show that a major athletic event evokes has tended to totally obscure the element of sportsmanship. At Harvard the question not only involves large gate receipts but also the matter of financing all athletic facilities that are open to members of the University...
Filipino newspapers hailed Mr. Roosevelt's resignation as "worthy of the highest traditions of American sportsmanship." Said President Hoover to him: "I appreciate fully the unselfish spirit that has prompted your withdrawal." As if to prove his appreciation the President then appointed Mr. Roosevelt to head the U. S. legation at Budapest, with this explanation: "Mr. Roosevelt was chosen . . . because of his familiarity with Hungarian events ever since he was a member of the field mission of the American Commission to negotiate peace, sent to Austria and Hungary...
...Then he gets out and walks to the butt-a crescent-shaped blind screened with furze. Last year one U. S. millionaire kept a tractor at the moor's edge in which he drove to the butt after leaving his car, but this luxury was criticized as bad sportsmanship. Gunners are served by three classes of retainers: 1) beaters who drive the grouse up to the guns; 2) gun-bearers who keep the guns loaded and laid ready on the peat sods of the butts; 3) butlers who keep the glasses filled and serve luncheon. A good...
...SPIRIT OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP HAVE CHALLENGED STATEMENT THAT YOU SMOKE CIGARETS PLEASE ANSWER...