Word: sportsmanship
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...even camels limp. China teemed with soldiers and brigands. Drought and sand storms were growing yearly worse. . . . But the Dodges pulled again. Urga was reached and passed again and again. Heady preparations, an invaluable caravan chief and keen diplomacy made life not merely possible but enjoyable. Good humor, good sportsmanship and firm purpose seem to have been the prime characteristics of Mr. Andrews' cosmopolitan score of associates, and as their historian, Mr. Andrews is as lively as he is conscientious. He finds room to mention strenuous game hunts, native customs and practical jokes quite as plentifully as epochal discoveries...
...whole affair or both affairs resolve themselves into expressions of that youthful indiscretion which can be so charming and can be so damnable. College is supposed to keep the charm and erase the damnation. So the fact that Yale offers in true sportsmanship to place another crew on the river or let the Harvard freshmen race in the Junior varsity event, is not without significance. It shows even more clearly to the public than such moves usually do the fact that the college is trying to maintain standards of sportsmanship and honor and that this indiscretion of certain individuals...
...George B. Cox, shrewd wife of a shrewd Ohio politician; and best known of all, a gentleman who peered through his racing-glasses while nearby touts peered at him, recognizing his florid, dignified countenance as that of Financier Harry Payne Whitney, owner of Blondin, whose stable and whose sportsmanship are famous on every track...
...same singers, it dropped from first to eleventh place in the ranking. There were eleven colleges competing. Now that was rather crude and obvious, but there were no complaints, no accusations made, and the club went right on competing for two more years. Does that show bad sportsmanship...
...Fleer to insinuate that Harvard's defeat due to "crude and obvious" unfairness on the part of the judge I unhesitatingly call bad--very bad--sportsmanship. Truly yours Francis Rogers...