. Book of the Royal blue . President and (leorge Bancroft Secretaryof the \a\y. In the past the Academy hasequipped officers who went forth from itshalls prepared to meet in battle array thebest naval forces of the nations. TheAcademy has obtained an unquestioned rep-utation as the best naval school in theworld. The officers of the AmericanNavy have the confidence of the country. The people rely implicitly on their ability,courage and fidelity in the hour of the coun-trys peril and danger. They have provedthemselves capable in battle, and have givena .Mahan to philosopic history; a Beehlerand
. Book of the Royal blue . President and (leorge Bancroft Secretaryof the \a\y. In the past the Academy hasequipped officers who went forth from itshalls prepared to meet in battle array thebest naval forces of the nations. TheAcademy has obtained an unquestioned rep-utation as the best naval school in theworld. The officers of the AmericanNavy have the confidence of the country. The people rely implicitly on their ability,courage and fidelity in the hour of the coun-trys peril and danger. They have provedthemselves capable in battle, and have givena .Mahan to philosopic history; a Beehlerand Fiske to invention; a Del-ong and aDanenhowcr to exploration. It is the aim of the Naval Academy toeducate its students in all that they will needto become competent naval officers; to keepthem in the forefront of nautical knowledge,and to make them masters of the art ofmaritime warfare. It goes without saying VM ENGINKERI that the Acadenn inculcates the Sdlemn ilut\upon its trradiiates to be gentlemen as well asofficers. The Academy neglects nothingthat a midshipman will require to knowwhen he reaches the estate of a com-missioned officer. While the youngest classwill be foimd learning on the spars of the Ship Severn the basal principles of hand-ling a boat under sails, the Seniors will beseen diving in the depths of the Chesapeakein the submarine, laying mines from bank tobank of the river, or hring great guns fromships under steam. lujuipped with two modern languagesbesides his own, learned in the law of nations,grounded in the facts of ancient and modernhistory, instructed in the art of speaking andwriting the English language correctly,polished by experience and a practicalchemist, an electrician, a patternmaker, amachinist, an engineer, a boilermender anda smith, a draftsman and a foot-soldier aswell as a seaman, the graduate of the Na\alAcademy has a diploma of which any manmigh
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