Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ambulance trains, then as chaplain with the 59th Division of Infantry. For fourteen years Chaplain Couve was a missionary in the French Congo. He is now Assistant Director of the Missionary Society of the Comite Protestant Francais and comes to this country to interpret to the United States the spirit of France and help foster cordiality between the two countries during the progress of Peace negotiations...
...closer triangular athletic alliance among the three colleges was under discussion. It was believed that a closer athletic relationship would tend to form a high standard of athletic rules which would be submitted to the college athletic world on the basis of fair-play and not in a spirit of imposing their will upon other colleges. The definite decisions made at this meeting will be published at an early date...
...push was on, and so I am sure that by rubbing shoulders with the British officers and Tommies throughout all Northern France, by giving them our best efforts when they were down to iron rations last spring, the University's Unit accomplished untold good in furthering the spirit of co-operation between the two great English speaking peoples
...much moral poison as a two-word phrase can hold", and it aims to dull the conscience into accepting the kind of listless existence it signifies. The man who says he is "getting by" is merely drifting with the current into the sea of oblivion. When the fighting spirit of races as well as of individuals runs low rapid degeneration inevitably follows. And when high resolve and constant initiative relax their powers, then the loser is morally poor indeed; for he has dropped out of the race in life and but impedes the way for those behind. If a student...
General Danford speaks of a combined summer camp in which there may be a "spirit of healthy rivalry in developing esprit, skill, and efficiency," and anticipates keen competition among Harvard, Princeton, and Yale when firing records are being kept...