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...Slot." Said a junior officer: "This is the only way to fight war for me, fat and happy, waiting for it to come to you. Good chow, showers and clean bunk." Rear Admiral John Higgins, whose flag is in the Juneau, smiled happily. This was what the Navy called esprit de corps. The Juneau headed back to her base in Japan to get more ammunition...
...success of the book was a credit to the new philosophy of Yearbook Publications. The advantages of a permanent staff, self-reproducing and possessed of esprit do corps, over a subcommittee of the Senior Class Committee were manifold...
Coan maintained that a new varsity club would be very valuable in building up the esprit de corps of Harvard athletic teams...
...paper, Harvard appears to have the edge. Brown, which lost decisively to the Crimson, tied Army. The Cadets also lost to Syracuse, 22 to 8. But some of their most able wrestlers who have been out with injuries are back now, and the Army esprit do corps, especially at home engagements, is something with which every visiting team must contend...
Then the shock treatment begins to pay off, first in bombing results, gradually in grudging admiration for Savage, finally in the esprit de corps that he has been driving for. But as the group's record vindicates the general's inhuman regime, his own humanity betrays him into physical collapse...