Word: sportsmanship
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...been told many times during my official residence in Washington by ambassadors of foreign nations that International sport competition, particularly tennis, is a wonderful factor in developing closer friendships, appreciation, and mutual understanding of national characteristics. The impression gained by foreign players in a strange country, based upon the sportsmanship, camaradarie of rival players and the attitude of spectators are carried home to serve as an index of the character of the inhabitants. It is missionary work of the highest type. No game surpasses tennis in this respect...
...Walker Cup by such an up-hill struggle makes America prize the victory higher than the cup and title. It will put another chapter in the records of American sportsmanship. The dogged determination which the American golfers displayed was as great as the traditional dogged determination of the most determined Englishman. Although one may still be so benighted as not to understand the meaning of "stymie" or "birdie" or "chip shot", neither Briton nor American who has heard the story of the contest will withhold a hand of sincere congratulation for the victorious team...
...following the principle that athletics is an element in the education of the individual to be given its due place but no more than that." The committee also comments favorably on the various agreements eliminating "everything that tends in the direction of professionalism," and praises the high standard of sportsmanship in modern athletics at Harvard...
...wrote that "the only system that merits support is a winning system." Bah, Mr. Editor, such narrow mindedness, such bad taste, such lack of sportsmanship! W. E. STILWELL Jr. '25 Cambridge, April...
...Conciseness, brevity, careful wording, correct paragraphing and the personal touch-these things make the perfect letter, and the perfect letter-writer." Battling Siki: "Because I punched the face of a waiter in a cafe, a Paris newspaper suggested that 'in the name of all organizations calling for good sportsmanship, Siki be captured, chained and sent back to his native Senegal, where he can enjoy himself with the rest of the savages." Florence Reed: "At a committee hearing on a bill to legalize Sunday theatrical performances I pleaded: ' Give us this blessed, precious 24 hours of rest on Sundays...