History of the United States Naval Academy: With Biographical Sketches, and the Names of All the Superintendents, Professors and Graduates, to which is Added a Record of Some of the Earliest Votes by Congress, of Thanks, Medals, and Swords to Naval OfficersD. Van Nostrand, 1862 - 156 pages |
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Page 21 - The effect of such an employment of the midshipmen cannot but be favorable to them and to the service. At present they are left, when waiting orders on shore, masters of their own motions, without steady occupation, young, and exulting in the relief from the restraints of discipline on shipboard. In collecting them at Annapolis for purposes of instruction, you will begin with the principle that a warrant in the Navy, far from being an excuse for licentious freedom, is to be held a pledge for subordination,...
Page 23 - It will be difficult to arrange a system of studies which will meet this emergency, but with the fixed resolve which you will bring to the work and with perseverance you will succeed. " Having thus expressed to you some general views, I leave you, with such assistance as you may require, to prepare and lay before this Department, for its approbation, a plan for the organization of the Naval School at Fort Severn, Annapolis.
Page 1 - Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye.
Page 13 - The School of Engineers and Artillerists"; another, "The School of Cavalry"; another, "The School of Infantry"; and a fifth, "The School of the Navy"; and of the following offices and persons: A director-general, to superintend the whole institution.