Word: esprit
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This theory has many takers. Owen emphasized the "more cohesive sense of the community there, and the greater sense of freedom here;" and Whiting talks about the "esprit de corps at Yale which you don't find as much here." Professor Key feels that the orderly, Gothic architecture in New Haven is symbolic of this when compared to Cambridge's haphazard combination of various architectural patterns...
...John Calvin's way and the way of his followers and the way of the New World experiment. The only embellishments of the day were made for tombstones and portals, and one John Hunt reflected the colony's aesthetic esprit when he complained that the stained glass of popish cathedrals kept out the light...
...critics of a general staff system, still led by the Navy and including many a Congressman, can be expected to put up a fight against any such change however labeled. Main lines of their argument: a general staff might 1) drain the separate services of esprit de corps, 2) commit the U.S. to a single, inflexible strategic course that might prove disastrous, and 3) concentrate military power to the extent that a Chief of General Staff could become a man on horseback, riding rough shod over democratic institutions...
...general staff advocates reply that the services could certainly keep their separate identity and esprit de corps under a general staff system. (The high-morale U.S. Marine Corps has been a part of the Navy since its founding in 1775.) While it is true that an oversimplified doctrinaire war plan could be disastrous, the advocates argue that a war plan carefully thought through, carefully approved by civilians both in Pentagon and Congress, would take maximum advantage of the strength of all the services and of the U.S. economy. As for the man on horseback, say general staff advocates...
...Esprit de Corps. In Brentwood, England, a British army officer, testifying on behalf of two of his men charged with car theft, conceded that they were inclined to be lawless, slovenly, irresponsible and lazy, but assured the court that they had "good army character...