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...manly art of self defence is a splendid thing for any young man to learn. It sets him up physically; prepares him to stand his ground if assaulted; and renders the body a splendid instrument or the mind and spirit. And, for the sake of stimulating interest in the sport, contests of skill are needful...
...tight place. But how far is it wise from the point of view of its effect upon the public interest? Most of us have seen its results at one time or another, in business, in public affairs, in every day life, in war, and even in sport. There is, in fact, nothing more demoralizing than the habit of palliating things which every one knows ought not to be done, on the ground that every one does them. A man under such conditions is apt to compare himself, not with the best, or even with the average, but with those...
...good deal of fun has been poked at the so-called English attitude of "sport for sport's sake". It has been ridiculed as producing only mediocre, half-hearted athletics and the various "moral victory" explanations of defeat. But whatever its faults, real or imagined, it does point out by contrast some of the defeats in our American adaptation of the Spartan creed: "Gome back with your shield...
...after a touchdown in a football game should be enough to send one team home heart-broken, "all in", disgraced,--at least in their own minds,--while the members of the other team mount pedestals to become objects for little short of idolatry. Yet just such a code of sport ethics is set up for us by the impassable gulf we create between winner and loser. With such a point-of-view appreciation of the game for its own sake is lost in accepting the finality of the score...
...value of the appreciation of sport for its own sake could nowhere be better seen than in Saturday's game at Worcester. The University was defeated, 2-1, but it is no "philosophy of defeat", nor does it detract in any way from Holy Cross's ability, to say that anyone who judged the result entirely by the score was getting less than no idea of the game. Fifteen innings of baseball, everywhere spoken of as one of the finest ever seen on a college diamond, featured by brilliant playing on both sides, is an achievement regardless of the score...