Fargo Central High School - Cynosure Yearbook (Fargo, ND)

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Foreword O you students of Fargo High School we are presenting this Sportsmanship number of the Cynosure Annual in the hope that you will ind it a true record of school life in its various phases. In every field of activity is called upon to display fairness to accept victory without hoastfulness and defeat with out c o m plain t This is the spirit of Sportsmanship. Our modernistic designs are an expression of the fact that Sportsmanship and Modernism go hand in hand for as Chivalry represented the highest ideals of the Middle Ages so Sportsmanship is the modern term applied to the expression of our highest ideals whether athletic, literary, or social, the student in J

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f' .J Dedication CFU the Sportsmanship Club of Fargo High School, a g r o u p which fosters and develops our highest ideal, that of playing the game of life in such a way that each may bring honor to himself and his associates, We dedicate this 1929 Cynosure Annual. annul uulluluunnull

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Four Rules for Qoocl Sportsman When you play 1 game always w1sh to w1n and try to w1n otherwlse your opponent w1l1 have no fun but never w1sh to wm so much that you cannot be happy wlthout lt Seek to w1n only by falr and lawful means 2iCCOI'd1llg to the rules of the game and th1s w1ll leave you wlthout bltterness toward your opponent or shame before others Take pleasure 1n the game even though you do not obtam the v1ctory for the purpose of the game 1S not merely to w1n but to flnd joy and strength 1n trymg If you obtam th1s v1ctory whlch you have so desxred th1nk more of your good fortune than of your own sk1ll Th1S w1ll make you grateful and ready to share wlth others the honor bestowed upon you and truly th1s IS both reasonable and profitable for lf IS but httle that any of us would wm 1n th1S world were our fortunes not better than our deserts Henry Van Dyke c s 3 . . ' . . K . 2 a 1 . . X . . , . 1 1 1 ni-