Word: sportsmanship
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Last Saturday's football game was the scene for a display of the poorest sportsmanship imaginable, and this on the part of Harvard boys--they cannot be called Harvard men after such an exhibition. The air above the stands during the second half was filled with flying paper-wads made of soaked copies of the H. A. A. News. It apparently began as a protest against ladies' umbrellas, but was continued for its own sake. I received a hard blow in the eye from a rolled magazine as I turned my head for an instant . . . I am extremely thankful that...
...beer cans were thrown, and one girl was struck in the ankle with a bottle, to say nothing of the numerous jolting slaps in the backs of heads. And coming in the face of the misfortunes of the team the undergraduates are expected to support, no worse lack of sportsmanship can be conceived...
...said McCray, "the atmosphere that pervaded all around was one surprisingly free of sincere apprehension, if what I thought I felt really bore out the true stimulus-individual-reaction sequence so well know to those of scientific bent. For fundamentally the Harvard-Dartmouth relationship is one of true sportsmanship, of the highest ideals, and of the utmost good faith...
Think beyond sportsmanship, Harvard men, unless your ambulance will carry the wounded for BOTH sides. Eugene C. Worman...
...Gallatin was definitely one of the lads in the days of pearl-button reefers and horse-headed canes. A member of the swank Union Club for many years, he was founder, remains president of the moribund Motor-Car Touring Society, whose object was to bring a tone of dashing sportsmanship to the horseless carriage...