United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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Officers, Professors, and Instructors Attached to the United States Naval Academy. Superintendent, Commander RICHARD WAINWRIGHT. Assistant to the Superintendent, in Charge of Buildings and Grounds. Professor O. G. Dodge, U. S. N. Aide to Superintendent. Secretary of the Academic Board, and in Charge of Ships. Lieutenant E. V. Eberle. Commandant of Cadets and Head of Department of Discipline, Commander C. E. COLAHAX. Assistants. Lieutenant-Commander I). W. Coffman. Lieutenant J. E. Craven, Lieutenant (junior grade) C. S. Bookwalter. Lieutenant (junior grade) R. Z. Johnston. SEAM A NS HI I . Head of Department. Lieutenant-Commander A. M. KNIGHT. Assistants, Lieutenant-Commander . V. Grant. Lieutenant John Hood, Lieutenant . R. M. Eiei.d. 8

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The Naval Academy The Naval Academy of the United States of America was estab- lished as an institution of the Federal Government on the tenth day of October, eighteen hundred and forty-five. The steps that had led to its foundation were varied and numerous, beginning with the plea put forth in 1814 by the Honorable William Jones, then Secretary of the Navy, and ending finally in the early spring of 1845 with the successful effort of the Honorable George M. Bancroft. Secretary of the Navy under President Polk, to secure an appropriation from Congress for its main- tenance. The selection of Annapolis as a site for the Naval Academy was advocated to the Secretary of the Navy in 1826 by the House of Delegates for the State of Maryland; and. by reason of its excellent sani- tary conditions, easy access by water, and its few distractions, this town was finally selected for the situation of the first Naval Academy in- stituted as a national school by any government in the world. The Naval Academy was a necessity. Through years of the train- ing of young naval officers at sea by schoolmasters, whose pay was so limited as to prevent men of learning from accepting a tutorship, to the naval school on shore where the sciences could be taught effectively, was a long, hard stride. Neither was the change effected suddenly. Schools were conducted at irregular intervals at New York and Phila- delphia. The upsetting of the old ideas of the naval officer's education, where valor was held to be the summation of his instruction, was effected, .not so much by the quick change to the combination of brain power with courage, as by the slow, steady increase of scholarly men in the personnel of the Navy. The success of the Naval Academy and its effect upon the efficiency of the naval service are, to-day. the best proofs of the foresight and ability of Secretary Bancroft. (The Academy (T.olors. (015 (fiold mi5 finuy tSIue.

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NAVIGATION. Head of Department. Commander J. A. NORRIS. Assistants, Lieutenant J. Y. Oman, Lieutenant T. I . Mac;rider. Lieutenant II. C. Kuenzli. ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY. Head of Department, Lieutenant-Commander T. B. HOWARD. Assistants, Lieutenant L. S. Van Duzer. Ensign A. E. Kalbach, Ensign W. T. Cluverius, Chief Gunner F. C. Messenger. Sword Master, A. J. CORBESIER. Assistant Sword Masters. J. B. Retz, George Heintz. MARINE ENGINEERING AND NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. Head of Department. Lieutenant-Commander F. II. ELDRIDGE. Assistants, Lieutenant-Commaiuler E. T. Warburton, Lieutenant F. Y. Bartlett. Lieutenant J. L. Gow. Lieutenant T. F. Carter. Lieutenant T. W. Ki n raid, 9