Word: esprit
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...nominally, mak-ing appointments and issuing orders only as their Secretaries of the Navy may require. President Roosevelt, however, runs the Navy in fact. At first his election was viewed by the Navy with alarm. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels came close to wrecking the service's esprit and morale with his politics and naval men recalled that Assistant Secretary Roosevelt had also played a rattling good political game. He is wiser now than he was 14 years ago, and his naval building program, undertaken after the Navy had laid down no new battleships, no destroyers since...
...unfortunate type of speaker, (one exception proved the rule) hardly felicitous of accent or manner. Until the group offers men a bit more representative of the student body as a whole, serious attention will surely be withheld. As for the M.M.C. & M.C., Lucius Beebe sends his best congratulations on "esprit de corps." And as for the NSL, try, try again. A weekly mass meeting would be welcomed by friend and foe of the Cause, alike. Hyde Park redivivus promises instruction and amusement for young and old. And let the watchword be Pax et Veritas. J. LeB. Boyle...
...think, however, admission should be charged, if only a nominal sum, say a thin dime. The proceeds could then be used for large departmental teas, which would do much to promote the esprit de corps, to use a French expression...
...saying we can only point to a recent example of the Cambridge esprit de corps which is quite typical of what Yale admires in the Harvard man. The head of Eliot House was of a mind to give a festive luncheon before the Yale game and announced to the members of his house that any who so chose were more than welcome to come. Although he should have known better, he was disappointed to find at the appointed hour a total of zero guests assembled to partake of his hospitality. Only by urgent messages to his intimate friends with Yale...
...would venture to sum up the results of the conference in two sentences. First, we have clearly delimited the field upon which the future constitution is going to be built. . . . Secondly, we have created an esprit de corps among...