Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-03
Saturday. Feb. 8. 1883.

THE REVOLT AT ANNAPOLIS, The boys in the Naval Academy at Annap-
 oils who have rebelled have . very poor case,
 judging from the published accounts of the trouble and it's causes. Cadet Woodruff, of 1 the first class, started the trouble by a dis
 honest proceeding. He is fine scholar, and
 at the examination in naval architecture
 solved the hard problems easily. He thought
 he would try to help some of his comrades
 pass the examination successfully. The regu- lations very properly provide that no Cadet shall leave the examination room before his work is done except in case of nee csssity
 While the examination was in progress Cadet Woodruff obtained permission to go out. There were four very hard problems in the eight presented, and the cadet, who had fg- ured these carefully out, posted them on the wall of closet where they ceuld be ssen by other cadets. When Cadet Woodruff re- turned to the room he signed the following certificate "I hereby affirm upon honor that during my absence from the examination room this morning neither received assist ance from any source nor did render assist ance to any other cadet" Capt. F. A. Cook, who was conducting the examination, discov- cred the paper and took possession of it. Subsequently Cadet Woodruff made the fol lowing written statement Before I re- turned to the examination room knew that Capt. Cook had the paper, and after hasty perusal of paper presented to me in the midst of my examination I signed it, think ing was signing the truth. Nevertheless, after considering the matter in my room, when had more time for thought, regret ted it, and would have retracted if had had a chance, so that could avoid the appear ance of saying what was not true-''
 Cadet Woodruff was suitably punished for this performance, but the boys whom he had tried to help signifed their appreciation of giving him three cheers. For this iniudi- cious act three cadets were disciplined This made more excitement, which was expressed in groans, misses and cheers, and finally all the cadets of the first class who participated in these demonstrations were declared to be in state of mutiny, were sent aboard the prison ship and deprived of their privileges Cadet petty officers of the second class were also charged with mutiny and deprived of their rank, and other cadets were also pun ished.
 Much fault is of course found by the ca dets with Captain Ramsay, who is at the head of the school It is said that his discipline is so rigid that the school is called, both in Washington and Annapolis, ''Ramsay's Re- formatory." But it is to be remembered that boys at school are apt to imagine that they have much to suffer and that the Naval Academy is not an ordinary school, but is, as Secretary Chandler says, Ian institution of military discipline, where the boys have their expenses paid by the United States, in order that they may be thoroughly educated and trained to life of self denial and self control, and fitted for the restraints and du- ties of a military profession" What is to be done to set matters right does not yet appear, but the young men are so plainly in the wrong that they do not deserve much sym Dathy