Word: esprit
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...left bank of the Charles, or, more exactly, in Phillips Brooks House last night, the French club fought a tossup battle over Brooklyn and Beacon Street accents in a game effort to recapture "I'esprit gaulois" on no stronger fuel than ice water. (It was called punch...
Under Master Mason Hammond '25, professor of Greek and Latin and of History, the Deacons from a spirited unit, and probably, more than any other group of students, they are proud of their House. Its esprit de corps makes Kirkland much more than just a place to eat, sleep, and hang your...
Author Sze does a good job of describing the sallies, bickerings and clumsy esprit de corps of her "little rats." Without distorting the naturalness of children's behavior, she leads the reader to envision the camp on the mud flats as a nation struggling to live. And Author Sze's ironical conclusion drives home a sharp point: it is not agents of civilized law & order who at last break up the camp, but an outraged black-marketeer with a Tommy gun, who regards the little thieves as a menace to the sanctity of his property...
...Esprit de House received a boost from the Dunster House Extra-Curricular Affairs Committee last week in the form of free courses in the liberal arts of rhumba, chess, bridge, and squash...
Hard playing and high spirit marked the Jayvees last year and this year looks to be about the same. Chief Boston runs the squad as he did last year and already it seems to have picked up the esprit de corps of past Boston teams. The strictest disciplinary measure they use at the blood pit is to keep offenders out of scrimmage...