Word: esprit
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...years had France seen such rain. Farmers slogged stolidly out to their fields to harvest the sodden crops, mill the grain and send it on its way. In little (pop. 4,400) Pont-Saint-Esprit, perched on a bluff along the River Rhone in southern France, the townspeople sat glumly in their bistros sipping wine, watching the swollen river slip past the medieval bridge which gives the town its name...
...question about Paris' gaiety, which long since has had the edge on British austerity. And while the British festival . . . has resulted in the city on the Thames having a little more bounce than usual, it still makes the British capital a road company of Paris, so far as esprit is concerned . . . The Rue Blondel maisons de tolerance have long since been outlawed, [but] the prosties [on the streets] are as surprising in their pert good looks and simple good taste in clothes as in the plenitude of numbers...
...Yale Spirit. Yet throughout this neo-Gothic land runs an intense esprit that seems to start with the Fellows of the mighty Corporation itself. These 19 gentlemen are the guardians of 1,005 acres, masters of $125 million in stocks and bonds, a 1,100-man faculty, an enrollment of 7,500. But such is their loyalty to Yale that rarely does any one of them miss a meeting. Even the nation's Secretary of State and one of its busiest Senators, Robert A. Taft, will once a month gladly drop everything in Washington for two days of sitting...
...Such esprit comes partly from the fact that Yale is a dynasty, perhaps the most inbred of all the ivy-league colleges. Since 1766 only one president, James Rowland Angell, has been an outsider, and today 55% of its faculty are Yalemen. It also springs from a carefully nurtured sense of responsibility and community service. One result is that Yalemen have sallied forth from New Haven to found or be first presidents of 40-other colleges & universities, until Yale has become the most successful Johnny Appleseed in the educational orchard...
...little bad luck . . . The first group got through a little early, so they got seconds. By the time the second group came through, we had to go a little light." Said General Cramer: "We are not concerned with morale here. The only time I worry about esprit de corps is when a soldier gets in the front line...