Word: unsportsman
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Dates: during 1888-1888
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...faculty were powerless without it. Drinking, cheating and lying are cases where the only cure is in the education of public opinion. Another example is the toleration among gentlemen of foul play in athletics, making an umpire needful to punish it. Howling at "errors" is extremely ungenerous and unsportsman-like. and is never seen in English universities. The chief object of college education is to implant in tellectual ambition and a high purpose, and this can be done only by a common sympathy for noble ends. Freshmen bring their home standards with them, and there is a decided difference between...