Word: sportsmanship
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People are growing weary of these annual, bitter bickerings. When international track-meets, horse races, and debates have by good-sportsmanship only confirmed Anglo-American harmony, one may begin to wonder if the two countries had not better disown their pugnacious fishermen. The races were instituted to develope a more efficient commercial schooner, not an eggshell yacht. When each race becomes a question of the validity of measurements before trustees of the international trophy, it no longer stands as a test of the best schooner in North American waters. There should be either less regulation and a more powerful committee...
...team and to the man himself. Yale has pinned high hopes upon this famous athlete, and the latter has doubtless been looking to his last season of football as an opportunity to realize to its full extent his usual ability. Members of the University who have seen his fine sportsmanship on the Yale university teams for two years will feel as sorry for his loss this fall as does his own college. And to O'Hearn himself the University extends its heartfelt sympathy...
...this Walter Hagen talk about another country's poor sportsmanship...
...Senegalese view of American sportsmanship...
...best it would serve only those whose religious wants were least, in need of tending. Dormitories and a gymnasium, on the other hand, are vitally necessary to make the University effective in carrying for ward its best ideals. The dormitory for fellowship, the gymnasium for physical health and sportsmanship--either would represent one of the most admirable qualities of the men it commemorated. It would encourage similar qualities in the young men who come after, and it would be actively before all the students as a significant reminder...