Word: sportsmanship
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...Professor Kennedy" he said, "has not only offered a number of new ideas to stimulate discussion and debate among college men, but he has stated again with cogent force, the simple truths of fair play and good sportsmanship...
...provide something more dependable than the unsupported say-so of some individual editor who remains anonymous. To brand a course as worthless, or an instructor as incompetent, on the testimony of one student among several hundred is hardly in accord with the amenities of clean journalism or true sportsmanship...
...said Stewart Edward White, author of 20-odd books on various sections of "God's Great Out-of-Doors." "It is not sportsmanship; it is disraceful butchery...
...said Edna, and looked scared. The gentleman was sympathetic. That really was pretty close for guessing, but he waved her aside and she had to stumble off the platform to her seat. If she cried when she got there, it was nerves, not bad sportsmanship. "G-L-A-D-I-O-L-U-S." Loudly, brightly, firmly, confidently, 11-year-old Frank Neuhauser of Louisville, Ky., spelled it right. Then he stood quivering with excitement, choking back a grin, while the auditorium-a Washington, D. C, one-crackled loudly with applause for the first national spelling champion, victor over...
...thought", "knowledge of human nature", "responsibility", "general culture", "general orientation of the different branches of knowledge", "labor, determination, patience, courage, and independence of thought", "intellectual awakening", "the advantage of spending four years in a thoroughly democratic society", "the knowledge that the qualities of honesty, courage, chivalry, courtesy, and sportsmanship are the standards essential to self-respect and the respect of the other members of the community in which one lives," "the whole blend of intellectual and social influence...