Word: sportsmanship
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...harm they may have done is offset in some degree in the public mind by the knowledge that it is a case of childishness run riot and that the men guilty of the folly have failed utterly to grasp the spirit of sportsmanship, good fellowship and good taste taught by the university they so completely misrepresent...
...secondly, of the student group, mainly because of the attendant publicity and a resultant inquisitiveness of the world into a private matter which should be solved primarily by Harvard if she is to maintain, in any sense of the word, her "specific code" of "enlightenedness, generous and fine sportsmanship, and pioneering in social progress," as the letter phrases it. The stigma is Harvard's; and it should be scrubbed out in private...
...debatable,--what is 'good' to the Christian may well be 'evil' to the Neitschean. But when related to the standards of a specific moral code, a situation either conforms or it does not. Harvard has forever identified herself with a specific code, one which signifies enlightenedness, generous and fine sportsmanship, and pioneering in social progress...
...they were talking about it on the veranda of the casino and over at the Greenbrier, using what they knew about the temperaments of the players, as much as their memory of what they had seen, to understand what had happened. It was an episode pregnant with questions of sportsmanship and it took place under the eyes of Joseph W. Wear, chairman of the Davis Cup Committee, in a quarter final match of the Mason & Dixon tournament at White Sulphur Springs, just three days before the 1930 Davis Cup team was to be selected...
...Country and For Yale" -was more than just a college-slogan for William Howard Taft. It represented a quality of public service, a sense of good-natured sportsmanship, a fidelity to duty that colored his whole existence...