Evening star., 1935-05-20
SHIP FOR NAVAL
ACADEMY |SURGED
Board Tells President Need
of Program of Ex-
pansion.
KETCHEL'S TRUM]

The Naval Academy should have a
practice ship, so that the midshipmen
might become better acquainted with
the ways of the sea, the Board Of
Visitors today told President Roose-
welt in its report. The board advo-
Gated that an expansion program
should be entered into and urged that
members of the Board of Visitors
be made more permanent with pro-
vision for rotation and continuity Of
service"
Ascertaining that 'the general
morale of the academy" indicates "a
properly disciplined body of young
men with plenty of initiative, good
habits, self-respect and good man
ners," the board advocated that there
should be additional officers and
civilian teachers to take care of in
creased number of midshipmen." The
board went on record as favortng re-
tirement of the civilian teaching
staff, exchange Of teachers, more ap-
preparation for lectures In the
Department Of Economics and Gov
eminent and the study Of the future
Of the Post Graduate School.
Recommendation Of Board.
With reference to the plant at the
academy, the board recommended
that there should be adequate hous-
ing for officers, plans for future de-
velopments Of buildings and grounds,
better lighting facilities, enlargement
of hospital and dispenSary. flreproof
repair shop and storage building,
soundproofing of ceiling and walls Of
the mess hall, enlargement of Ban
croft Hall, mess hall, provision for
additional recitation rooms, laboratory
and library facilities, extension to
armory at rifle range and a field
house.
The board told the Chief Execu-
tive that certain days should be set
aside for visits by members of Con-
gress by invitation to the academy.
The official visitors asserted that the
new program, put into effect this
year to give a much larger body Of
midshipmen greater responsibility as
student officers, impressed them
much.
1.-THE rotation of midshipnan Off
GERS not only gave larger number Of
first classmen positions of RESPONSE
bility, but increased their interest and
maintained their enthusiasm" wrote
the board.
THE board discerns consciousness
on the part of the midshipmen that
the spirit of fairness and justice pre-
walls throughout the institution. The
level of success attained in reclaiming
to endeavor for higher achievement
any midshipmen who may have been
delinquent is evidence of the wisdom
and efficiency of this disciplinary pro-
gram. It is a matter of great salts
faction to the board to discern the
personal interest everywhere manifest
on the part of the officers in the mid
shipmen under their charge, inspir-
ing them, as they do, to realize not
only to highest attainments in schol-
arship, but highest development of
manly characters as we'll"
Members of Board.
Headed by President K. C. M. Sills
Of Bowdoin College, the membership
of the Board of Visitors comprised:
President Rufus B. Won KleinSmid of
the University of Southern California,
President Edward c. Elliott of Purdue
University, President M. L. Britain
Of Georgia Schol of Technology, Pres
ident Francis Pendleton Gaines of
Washington and Lee University, DR..
w. Coleman Nevils, president of
Georgetown University; Senator Jesse
H. Metcalf, Republican, of Rhode
Island; Representative U. S. Guyer,
Republican, of Kansas; Representa-
tive William P. Cole, jr., Democrat,
of Maryland, and Representative John
H. Tolan, Democrat, of California.