Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-02-19
OFFICER TEACHERS
At NAVAL SCHOOL
ps-iiBsa. Problem Of "Cits" as
Teachers at academy Easily
Solved.
STUDENT OF THE"GOLDEN AGE'
Bk, Shade q Prof. Fay and Oilers
orHs Day 90 Breathe a Little
Prayer.

Ar.si copy Of the New York
rr.-.a- Hato of January q contains
tte h.IaH.ng readable and interest.
Communication 90 "0mcer-Teach
.- q. Annapolis" which at this time
.trsrn agitation over citizen profes-
.ars ~ especial local interest:
"sI. You seem at times TO have
surgical c.everness in placing your
finger directly 0n diseased spot IN
arnv ar navy administration The
Bites. Is your comment upon the pro-
l uidati0n If the civilian pro-
lessor q. aa Naval Academy
TH. very bringing up Of the sub
fs.l ha carried me back TO q time
Yen ogara f1ll generation when with
few pounds OF bones and flesh end
many -aG.-s of inafted pride ! filed
81t .he Uniform Of a plsb at the Ma
gs SCHOOL, Then there was quite
staff r civilian professors although
aH.5r..r tructors were 10 the large
majority. The civilians were men of
exceptional attainments.
"u t. drawing department there
aas young officer as an instructor.
HIs duties we're about as close to
thata' naval officer as milking
cows % d farm would have been. Tn
0gs ar weeks we plebes had not vet
e9t 81 ~ proper viewpoint for all
tha grIUunding gorgeousness and at
times would get admirals and marine
.argaants mixed up and even take
a-ciy.'ian watehmen in the grounds
for Ho-t-captains.
"oa day in drawing class when l
7as busy freely sketching "a foot that
bad been cut Oft a Roman statue by
lte .'asw0rs of @ Visig0th the young
ensign instructor joined me at my
work and proceeded to cure an over
aueug toe. Carried away with graf
.taIs Z acclaimed, Thank you Pro-
fa At the last word Ensign X
ma' jump in the air and cried
Oo. Eu ver dare to cali me
n.1.. again; m O naval officer.
Ensign * has haeu out of the service
these usay years and long since be-
-m aue of the famous professors of
s world professor to the tip Of
a. fingers and nothing else.
Many of .he oiHcer-instructors
vre Che poorest kind OF teachers.
One remember wen veritable pea
..es In vanity who spent three years
DO tts department. of applied mathe-
waHes when he should have been at
$685. He knew no more about teach
- than aH Irish cook out of a Harlem
aat. au. De thought he knew il all
having graduated at the head Of his
class. Ihe cadets did not like him
ala recitation time with him was not
mngIlng of souls in a love feast.
However be always came out on top.
Ae bad the patent rights on what we
called the balloon problam' a prob,
.em 90 which so far az midshipmen
new there had never been found a so
.lton. When be wanted to iron one
O.. Us cut f8t bee sent him to the
blackboard with the balloon problem
which meant a zero mark that day.
'ln your comment sou err a little
As 20 .'cer-ilstructoIs not knowing
much mathematics. That is the Ma
wa. aea Jenny s. long suit Tia mystime
mere nearly forty years ago, there
#as crowd of officers in the depart
m.at mathematics that could not
aa'e '.a aIstaaeed by any professor
iolaa 'a ,ae great universities Of
tae world, and maybe il is the same
,2aat. Bot English studies and the
ine! has been an ever-perpetu-
a,t1 anier putting officers as in.
s'.1tJ.rs In the department Of Eng-
"s' studies. ln an academic sense,
aa'a olcers know no English worth