Word: esprit
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...time more than half of the student body of a school is expected at an event,--more than that are expected to see the Crimson beat Yale today--something is unifying the students. Could Harvard have more esprit? Sure, but couldn't any school? The first thing that all of you who declare our school's spirit dead should consider is what exactly school spirit means...
...scholars at the conference were either former students of Williams or had been part of a dissertation fellows program that Williams pioneered, according to Randall K. Burkett, fellows officer at the DuBois Institute. "I felt there was a real esprit among the conferences," Burkett said...
...courtly and professorial, Lelyveld shy yet blunt -- but not necessarily in substance. Both men are Ivy Leaguers and Pulitzer prizewinners (Frankel for covering Richard Nixon's trip to China, Lelyveld for a book about South Africa) who have spent their adult life at the Times. Both reflect a newsroom esprit de corps that approaches religious fervor. Both are political liberals who preach the importance of balance and fairness. And both lament that economic pressures led to staff buyouts over the past couple of years but say the Times still has the resources it needs...
First-year proctor Douglas Stone, associatedirector of the Harvard Negotiations Project, saysthe trainers hope to develop an "esprit de corps"in the April training session to they will be ableto deal with actual conflicts in the Harvardcommunity...
...modernistic glass pyramid in the the museum's vast central courtyard, the work brought accusations of aesthetic heresy. This time Pei has offended some observers by combining the museum with an underground shopping gallery that includes 13 fast-food counters and 60 boutiques, ranging from Lalique crystal to Esprit sportswear and a Virgin Records Megastore. The new commercial space is elegant and features at its center an inverted Pei pyramid, which echoes the one outside and bathes the beige limestone halls in a rich, silky light. To his critics, Pei responds in the best tradition of the king-picked artist...