Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...inclined to overwork the authority which they symbolize and who offend us by vanity or by insolence. These however, are the exceptions, and we may feel confident that they will one day find their due levels. Upon the whole, uniforms in the national service make for a spirit of noblesse oblige, especially in the junior ranks. And so long as they are in the main obtainable on merit and without favoritism, they cannot be fairly called undemocratic...
...their work has been nullified by a lack of teamwork. It has been the outstanding fault in all the games so far. A common bond of sympathy is what is needed to make the eleven men play as a unit. I think the real beginning of a team spirit came after the Exeter game, when we began to realize that we had been playing only as individuals. If we feel that the whole Class is behind us as a team this common bend of sympathy will be more firmly cemented, and I think that I may safely prophesy a victory...
...Choral Prelude, J. S. Bach 5. Now praise we Christ (A solis ortus cardine). Choral Prelude, J. S. Bach. 6. Christ who freed our souls from danger. Jesus Christus nostra salus, John Huss. 7. Christ lay in death's dark prison. Choral Prelude, J. S. Bach. 8. Come, Holy Spirit, come (Veni, Sancte Spiritus). 9. Nunc Dimittis. Choral Prelude, J. S. Bach. 10. The Lord's Prayer. Choral Prelude, Samuel Scheidt, 1587-1659. 11. Sanctus. 12. From heaven above to earth 1 come. Choral Prelude, Pachelbel, 1653-1706, 13. To Shepherds as they watched by night (original folk-song melody...
Editorially the Illustrated true to the general spirit of wartime unrest presents the unexpected and wanders into that ever dangerous political field. "Them is harsh words", editor; as "Tommy" says, as the Boche bomb lies at a distance unexploded "there might be something in it', but wouldn't it be a little more like "the thing" to figure that "c'est la guerre." Since the war started Lloyd George has shipped all London's red tape to "blighty" or as that Guy Empey might say, "west"; south would be more to the correct atmospheric direction. One half of the classes...
...repeat, that the training given here is admirable, the cadets are showing good spirit, and that I consider the highest congratulation and praise due to the French officers who are in charge of the instruction...