Word: esprit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school through his personal excellence in scholarship, it is an afterthought. Just because studying is purely personal--one might almost call it a development of one's egoism--it has been necessary in both schools and colleges to seek in extra-curriculum activities the means for creating an esprit de corps. As a general rule, a man is a good student because of the peculiar warp of his mind. The trophy is a group award, and will probably be won because the group that gets it is composed of boys who are naturally good students, rather than that the prospect...
...Whether journalism can be a profession. This relates to the 'difficulty, if not the impossibility, under present conditions, of maintaining any consistent standard of ethics. . . . There are, to be sure, certain associations of journalists. Last year was formed the American Society of Newspaper Editors ... 'to develop a stronger professional esprit de corps, to maintain the dignity and rights of the profession, to consider and perhaps establish ethical standards for professional conduct' . . . with an initial membership of 124 editors-in-chief and executive editors. . . . This group . . . adopted a set of 'Canons of Journalism' prepared by Mr. H. J. Wright, at that...
Bring back our lost esprit de corps...
Then it is said that there is more esprit de corps in an Oxford college than in one of our classes. In this connection we must not forget that when a man goes to Oxford he thinks of himself not so much as an Oxford man but as a New College man or a Trinity man. His feelings towards his college correspond to the devotion of all Harvard men to their University. Class loyalty is only secondary to the other and in fact the outstanding purpose of class organization in college, as thereafter, is that of furthering the interests...
...First there is the matter of esprit de corps. Harvard has this to a degree in the different clases, which, however, are too large to have a feeling of unity, and in the clubs, which are too small to affect the whole University. At Oxford each man is a vital part of his college. He sleeps there, studies there, eats there, and has his friends there...