Word: sportsmanship
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...knitting and they have not been successful. I am not blaming them nor are the reasons for their failure relevant. The fact that they have failed in the important and vital thing. It is high time to bring to bear the influence of the spirit of sportsmanship--fair play for all and a sporting chance for the underdog--as a World-Welder. I need not labour the point to caders of the Harvard CRIMSON that sportsmen--having no ulterior motive can meet and establish mutual understanding and respect when politicians and diplomats are bound to fail...
...These people who put up half-million-dollar purses are idiotic. They seem to think horses are like machines. That's not sportsmanship; it's commercialism...
...increased enthusiasm, financial support, and physical assistance brought by a representative stadium and all that it means should start the Bear on a new and even more glorious career, to be added to not inconsiderable laurels of the past and a memorable tradition of hard playing and good sportsmanship...
Commenting on Le Baron Russell Briggs' '75 record as chairman of the Harvard Athletic Committee, F. W. Moore '93, Graduate Treasurer of the Harvard Athletic Association, said; "He has stood for the highest type of sportsmanship. His influence toward establishing friendly relations between colleges has been tremendous...
...Haven, Conn., March 30--"Dean Briggs represents more than anyone else the present high spirit of sportsmanship in intercollegiate athletics. His sane judgements, unerring fairness, and broad charity have through many years formed a sound basis of friendship between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. His character and personality alone have been ample insurance against serious misunderstanding, and no other man has in equal degree the personal love and respect of the members of all three Universities. I cannot overstate the regret and sense of loss which his retirement will cause here at Yale...