Word: sportsmanship
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...schedule means a more complete bond between two universities which should be on the closest possible terms. Although we do not look to see a Princeton game, meet, or race ever partake of the interest now attached to a Yale contest, we think that the best interests of intercollegiate sportsmanship are served when Harvard appears on the Princeton schedule. A dual meet in track alone remains to put the two universities on the same apparent relations as now exist between Harvard and Yale...
...reasons: first, to let those who may have heard of the matter know that Harvard undergraduates do not stand for this sort of thing. (Had not due punishment already been administered, we should not hesitate to publish the names of the men whom we deem so misrepresentative of Harvard sportsmanship). And, in the second place, we wish to point out the far-reaching effects of what may have been thought at the time something in the nature of a care-free "party...
...game and of growing popularity here, took the place of football in 1907. Since then the two colleges have come into ever closer relations. The clean playing on Saturday is the best indication that this friendly feeling will continue year by year and so strengthen a bond of international sportsmanship...
...does not find college athletics an unmixed good and believes that too few are able to indulge in them, and though he finds certain post-victory observances highly objectionable, he nevertheless finds them valuable for discipline and for moral restraint. He also enlarges on college spirit and the sportsmanship and gentlemanliness required of and usually possessed by both player and spectator as making athletics a positive good...
This action is certainly worthy of commendation. Too often intense rivalry and a keen desire to win combine to deprive contests of all sportsmanship. Such a condition cannot fall to be detrimental to the best interests of sport and is apt to prove fatal to the fundamental purpose of athletic rivalry--the encouragement and furtherance of pleasant personal relations between different colleges...