“ The course of instruction is for four years—“final graduation” comes only after six years, the additional years being spent at sea—and is in eleven departments: discipline, seamanship, ordnance and gunnery, navigation, marine engineering and naval construction, mathematics and mechanics, physics and chemistry, electrical engineering, English, modern languages, naval hygiene and physiology. ”

“ Vessels for practice work of midshipmen in the first, second, and third year classes are attached to the academy during the academic year, and from early in une to September of each year the midshipmen are engaged in practice cruises. ”