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...decorations consist of two oblong panels, arched at the top, and in plain view from either the top or the bottom of the main staircase. They are uniform, in shape and design, with the three windows that flank the stairway. The light, coming freely from both sides, gives the visitor ample illumination to study the figures with care from the balcony, which is on a level with the paintings. In Mr. Sargent's other Boston murals, the lighting and position are such that careful study is not convenient...
...give to all cadets a broad conception of all the branches of the service", is indicated by the high professional leadership of its graduates as Corps and Division commanders in France. It is generally acknowledged that this leadership was largely responsible for the rounding up of the German left flank. The unstinted and spontaneous praise of the French officers who visited West Point immediately after our entrance into the War suggests the high standing the Academy holds in foreign lands. This is especially so of its extensive system of physical training, which offers a unique combination of athletics, gymnastics...
Bismark, being asked what he would do if his right flank were protected by fortifications and his left flank by a promise replied he would prepare for an attack through the promise. So, in 1914, peaceful Belgium was protected by a promise, but, unlike the Iron Chancellor who was a German and judged others by himself--Belgium looked for an attack from nowhere. She rested in false security, as everyone knows. Her government was riddled with German espionage; the forts surrounding Antwerp had been electrically wired by a German firm, so that when the stege later came, the wiring...
...Verdun, but the events of the last two weeks prove that if it is evacuated it will not be because of the defection of the British soldiers. Regardless of the loss of the Passchendaele Ridge before the city and the Wytschaete Ridge with Kemmel Hill on its south flank, the English battalions have matched German blow with British blow, German gain with British gain in the immediate environs of the city, and seem able to keep the Hun indefinitely from the Belgian city hallowed by so much British blood until the higher command shall order their advance or withdrawal...
...physical factors before him, but also the morale of his troops. On three occasions in particular has he achieved decisive success. The first was the Battle of la Fere Champenoise, in the centre of front on the Marne, where against overwhelming odds he rearranged his front, cutting into the flank of his opponents and provoking the general retreat that carried back the Germans to the line of the Aisne; the second occurred at the first battle of Ypres, where he coordinated the movements of several French and British armies, and held back the enemy on the Flanders front; the third...