Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-02-04
PROVIDE LECTURERS
FOR Student OFFICERS
Post Graduate Department With
Additional Courses Under Way.
FIFTEEN NEW SCHOLARS
And More Of the Younger Naval Men
VIII BE- Detailed to Take the
Course Of Studies.

With the inauguration of a series
of lectures Yesterday, and fifteen ad-
ditional officers reporting for in
struction, the postgraduate course at
the Naval Academy, greatly enlarged
by the addition If four departme nts,
began the second half of the 1913
term.
By the extension of the course Of
instruction, the Naval Academy vir-
tually becomes a Naval univer-
sity, as the courses are designed to
equip the young officers with thor
ough nowledge of every subject that
goes to the making of comp stent men
of the sea. The additional courses
established are naval construction.
ordnance and gunnery, electrical en-
gineering and physics and chemistry.
Men prominent in the scientific
world, and practical engineers, have
been engaged 10 deliver lectures TO
the student officers on various sub
jects lrom time to time. In other
words it means an increased faculty
Che actual direction of the work Of
the courses will be under a Council,
OF which the Superintendent of the
Acadt my is the head, and the other
members are the heads of the sew
eral academic departments, together
with Civil Engineer A. L. Parsons,
of Washington
The fifteen additional officers who
reported for study are: Engineering
--Lieuts w. c. Barker, Jr., C. H. j.
Keppler, r. T. S. Lowell, r. b.
Horner l.. f. Thibault, H. I. Dyer,
r. F. Frellsen and X. Bruce. Ord
nance and Gunne ry-- -Lie0ts, r. Hill.
j.. c. Scheibla, j F. Cox and w. F..
Newton. Naval Construction and
Repair Ensigns b. S. BulIard, w.
w. Webster and E. L. Patch.
The course during February for
the engineers and constructors will
include physics, chemistry, metal.
lurgy. electricity, mathematics, lab
oratory work in electricity and a
special course in fuels. The scope of
he work is indicated by the fact
that during the month there will be
fourteen different lecturers on vari-
Gus phases of the subject of fuels
each one the very best man who could
be procured in connection with the
special portion of the subject to
which he will devote his attention
Dr. ID. T. Day, of the United
States Geological Survey, began the
lectures on fuel yeerday, his subject
being Oil Fields and Their Produc-
tion. He began the subject with an
explanation of the formation of oil in
the ground. He will also lecture to-
day and tomorrow. The lecturer
uses lantern slides and moving pic
lures to illustrate the production of
oil.
Prot. II. E. Clifford, of Harvard,
will direct the instruction In cleo
tricity and will spend the next four
months here. DR.. Joseph Ames, of
Johrs Hopkins, will direct the sub
ject of physics, and Prof. A. NJ.
| Walker, of the Columbia School of
/ Mines, will direct the work in metal
lurgv. Both of these eminent edu-
Gators and scientific men will spend
a considerable portion of their time
at the Academy.
Lieut.. Commander j. +. Morton is
the directing head Of the post-grad-
| ate departme of the Academy, and
has in large measure, mapped out
the courses and arranged the sched
uIes of work. Prof. G. G. Calhoun
u. S. N, will devote his entire work
to the postgraduate department
while Prof. P. j. Dashiell, U. S. N
Prof. w. w. johnson and Instructor
T. W. johnson. of the Naval Academy
Instruction corps, will devote a por
tion of their time to it.