New-York tribune., 1912-03-03
CADETS GOING TO CLASSES.
Drastic Curriculum Turns Out
Men Trained for Success
Whether in or Out
of Navy.

question, What will be done with himT
bat merciful authority did not put the two
final marks against the offender and he
was graduated and saw service in the Span
ish-American War Some midshipmen,
known as conduct fends." will pass a
whole year without a demerit They are
very few and far between.
The working day at the Naval Academy
begins at 6 80 a. m. when the reveille gun
is fred, the bugles blare, the drums beat
at the marine quarters and the captains OK
each company OF midshpmen call out IN
the corridors Of Bancroft Hall: "rhe men
of Company will get up" Yet even
then a midshipman will sometimes sleep
on, and will awake only when he hears the
inspecting officer rap at the door next TO
his in time to jump out OF bed and stand
at attention as his door opens, for IL is: a..
rap and turn of the knob Immediately. In
half an hour the midshipman must have
dressed, lowered his windows, turned down
his bedclothes to air and be below to an
swer the rollcall for breakfast formation
Immediately after breakfast the chap
lain reads the prayers OF the day, and the
sick call follows for all indisposed to re-
port their need OF the surgeons services.
Then the brigade makes rush bodily Tor
quarters. to put their rooms in order FOR
the 10 o'clock inspection. as this is their
only sure period, since in few moments
the bugle sounds the call TO rooms. when,
if they have recitations, they must marcn
off in their section to recite. and. " not
they must remain in their quarters until the
next recitation, or until the study hours OF
the morning are over The recitations last
one hour each. and there are four in the
morning and two in the afternoon. Dinner
formation occurs at IL 80 p. M. and study
hours and recitations are resumed at 80.
THE DAYS EXERCISES.
At 3:55 y. m. the practical exercises OF
the day begin. and, according TO the sched-
ule Of events fer each class and section, a
midshipman may be then doing one or the
other of these works. drills or exercises:
In the sail loft. learning how 10 tie ropes
and knots: in the steam launches, man
, aging an engine: with the signal flag, learn
ing naval signals. on the deck OF a snip
handling great guns; firing torpedoes or
sinking with the submarine in the depths
Of the Chesapeake; sklrmishing along the
line Of battle drill; at the rife range. try
ing TO hit the bulls-eye at 1000 yards; In
ling engines or learning now to make the
various parts of them In the machine shop;
running the dynamo in the department OF
mechanics; putting a patch on boiler IN
the boilermaking shop; making the sparks
fly from the iron on the anvil with MS
sledgehammer or dovetaiing fine pattern
in the patternmaking shop These exar-
cises continue until $50 p. m. when the
IL,
devices: but II he be on one OF the athletic
squads he will so to his place In 1t ana
work with vigor TO get on the team until
p. m., when there are the supper formation
and rollcall. Immediately after supper IS
the call for rooms and study hours. At o."
the gun fires for release from rooms ana
study hours. and al 10 taps" is sounded
and lusty voices call down the hall: 'Ah
lights out!'
During this day the midshipman has hsd
only one hour and twenty-five minutes thas
he could call his own. and often this res
ervation has its trespassers with insisten'
academic duties. Should he belong to any
of the training squads he will have no time
in the day to himself, except few hours
on Sundays or slight release on Saturday
night. A mldshipman who was reported
for having two small specks OF dust on MS
clothes at a Sunday formation never fouho
time to remove them until few minutes
before the next Sunday mornings inspee-
ton A midshipman has the general man.
ner of a man with something to do, ana
that Immediately. At Taps" the averase
American midshipman is glad TO turn III
for a nights rest.
CURRICULUM OF THE ACADEMY
The theoretical instruction OF the Naval
Academy is.
First year-Mechanical drawing. ALGEBRA
geometry. English, French. Spanish, iosS'
rthms and trigonometry.
Second year-Mechanical drawing, ana
lytcal geometry, calculus, elementary
physics, chemistry. English Literature
French and Spanish. mechanical processes
integral calculus. spherical trigononieu9
stereographic projection. physics ehe'"
lstry and United States naval history
Third year-Boats. seamanship, iniap,.
and artillery instructions, gun drli's' p,", p.,
ciples of mechanics. boilers, tneofeu
mechanics frictional electricity ,s,, e'es
states, magnetism. electro-mss"'"sa "a.
electro chemistry, direct currents ,,,.
nance and gunnery. astronomy. ns'is'"
Continued on nfth pass