. Book of the Royal blue . THE ARMORY AND DRILL HALL. BANCROFT HALL President and George Bancroft Secretaryof the Navy. 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 nav al school in theworld. The officers of the AmericanNavy have the confidence of the people relv 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 Mah
. Book of the Royal blue . THE ARMORY AND DRILL HALL. BANCROFT HALL President and George Bancroft Secretaryof the Navy. 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 nav al school in theworld. The officers of the AmericanNavy have the confidence of the people relv 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 Hske to invention; a DeLong and aDanenhower 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 STEAM ENGINEERING BUILDING. ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. that the Academ\ inculcates the solemn dutyupon its trraduates to be irentlemen as v\ell 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 found learning on the spars of the Ship Se\ern 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 rixer, or tiring great guns fromships under steam. Kquipped 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\alAc
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