Word: sportsmanship
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...announcement which appears today to the effect that the protest has been repelled at a mutual request to the intercollegiate League that the game be played over from the beginning. It is a move based on an admirable spirit of cooperation, and upon the principles of sportsmanship which rightfully belong to all sports contests...
...need to resort to ill feelings and emotional reactions to settle differences. But, aside from the present significance of the agreement, it should serve as a guidepost for all future occasions and as an example to other contesting colleges as well. There is no need for legal decisions when sportsmanship prevails. The Daily Princetonian...
...greatest card player in the world." In the light of this statement, and of the friendly little tiffs during the match, the following advice becomes pregnant with something or other: "My wife and I believe in teaching our children bridge at an early age, as the best training . . . for sportsmanship...
...Pulitzer Prize with Hell-bent for Heaven. The Professor's current opus is about a sophisticated artist who wants a baby, while his wife is only interested in amateur theatricals. The artist has the baby by an obliging French girl, an act which his wife takes with thoroughgoing good sportsmanship. Professor Hughes, in all probability, will not win the 1935 Pulitzer Prize with The Lord Blesses the Bishop...
...comes at a significant time. A little less than a year ago small groups of alumni were sending enraged protests to the Athletic Association and demanding an outside coach. But the A.A., convinced that to hire a professional, outside coach would eventually prove inconsistent with the preservation of Yale sportsmanship ideals, adopted a compromise plan in which a Yale graduate head coach was supported by non-graduates...