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...admission; 2) the breaking up of classes into small sections so that instructors could speed the bright cadets and worry along with the dullards; 3) daily recitations and grades for all cadets; 4) a Spartan life; 5) hikes by the Corps to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, to in spire public confidence; 6) a cadet officer hierarchy, based solely on merit; 7) a strong community of spirit, based on absolute honesty. By the time Thayer resigned in 1833, West Point had earned international renown...
...smoke of burning buildings swirled up to the spire of 800-year-old Saint Stephen's church, its bells pealed as they had in 1683, when the Turks were at the city's southern walls. But now the ancient bells pealed a Nazi call for Austrians to go out and die with their beautiful city. Said a Nazi broadcaster: "Now it is your turn...
...Along the lanes and highroads, past the bare beech forests and the smooth slopes of the Downs, came the farmers of Sussex. Afoot and in wagons, they converged on Chichester Cathedral, whose distant spire was a grey needle against the sea. They filed into the famed early Norman church, packed it to the doors, and waited self-consciously. For the first time in 300 years, the British festival of Plough Monday was being celebrated...
Wild bells (but perfectly controlled) rang out last week from the spire of Leicester Cathedral. For four solid hours campanologists* listened critically and with delight to the Cathedral's bashing, bonging bells hammering out the 5,280 changes of the Cambridge Surprise Maximus. A cause of further delight to those in the know was the fact that one of the twelve bell ropes was pulled by a 15-year-old girl...
...exquisitely spired Gothic church of St. Pierre, built in 1308. St. Pierre's spire stood unscathed through the bombardment of Caen in 1563, during the Wars of Religion...