Word: esprit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...results of this social club based primarily upon athletic prowess should be a greater esprit de corps among the members of the various teams, a greater incentive to become a member of a University team, and indirectly more victories. It will be an official organ to set the standard and voice the sentiments of Harvard athletics...
...organized society he has made a special appeal, and we of Harvard can appreciate his earnest deprecation of its fragmentary nature. We have long appreciated it, as the CRIMSON has already pointed out, and have urged upon our doubting elders the advisability of class dormitories, class undertakings, and University "esprit de corps," as fostered by intercollegiate games...
...older and more mature, and are more devoted to their studies; and there is not the superabundant interest in outsider things that there is at Harvard. At Berlin this condition is more apparent then at other universities, for at Bonn, Heidelberg and the other provincial universities there is more esprit de corps. At none of the European universities is there any development of athletics corresponding to ours. Compulsory service in the army supplies in part the need of physical training, but the absence of athletics makes student life lack variety. The Germans work harder in their courses, and with...
...example will illustrate: We undergraduates believe, by democratic and thorough organization of all the undergraduate community into classes, teams, class dormitories, and the like, and with the whole strengthened by the presence of an untrammeled system of intercollegiate games, that each individual is given a better chance, and the "esprit de corps" of the University greatly increased. Apparently, our elders have little faith in this kind of organization. They would have each man go his way, as separate from the rest as each grain in a pile of sand...
...training-table has two excellent reasons for its existence. First, it is impossible without it to bring men into the excellent physical condition required by the keen competitions of our present athletic contests; and second, it has great importance in developing the unity of a team and the "esprit" of its individual members...