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See also:UNITED STATES See also:NAVAL See also:ACADEMY , an institution for the See also:education of See also:officers of the United States See also:Navy, at See also:Annapolis, See also:Maryland, occupying about 200 acres on the See also:banks of the See also:Severn. Its See also:principal buildings are the marine See also:engineering See also:building, the See also:academic building (containing the library), the See also:chapel, the gymnasium, the physics and See also:chemistry building, the auditorium, the armoury, the See also:power-See also:house, the See also:administration building, See also:Bancroft See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall (the midshipmen's quarters), officers' See also:mess and See also:club, and See also:Sampson See also:Row, Upshur Row and See also:Rodgers Row, the officers' quarters.' By an See also:Act of See also:Congress passed in 1903 two midshipmen (as the students have been called since 1902; " naval cadets " was the See also:term formerly used) were allowed for each senator, representative, and delegate in Congress, two for the See also:District of See also:Columbia, and five each-See also:year at large; but after 1913 only one See also:midshipman is to be appointed for each senator, representative and delegate in Congress. Candidates are nominated by their senator, representative, or delegate in Congress, and those from the District of Columbia and those appointed at large are chosen by the See also:President; but to be admitted they must be between sixteen and twenty years of See also:age and must pass an entrance examination. Each midshipman is paid $600 a year, beginning with the date of his See also:admission; and he must bind himself to serve in the United States Navy for eight years (including the years spent in the academy) unless he is discharged sooner. The course of instruction is for four years—" final See also:graduation " comes only after six years, the additional years being spent at See also:sea—and is in eleven departments: discipline, See also:seamanship, See also:ordnance and gunnery, See also:navigation, marine engineering and naval construction, See also:mathematics and See also:mechanics, physics and chemistry, See also:electrical engineering, See also:English, See also:modern See also:languages, naval See also:hygiene and See also:physiology. Vessels for practice See also:work of midshipmen in the first, second, and third year classes are attached to the academy during the academic year, and from See also:early in See also:June to See also:September of each year the midshipmen are engaged in practice cruises. The academy is governed by the See also:Bureau of Navigation of the United States Navy See also:Department, and is under the immediate supervision of a See also:superintendent appointed by the secretary of the navy, with whom are associated the Commandant of Midshipmen, a disciplinary officer, and the Academic See also:Board, which is composed of the superintendent and the See also:head of each of the eleven departments. The institution was founded as the Naval School in 1845 by the secretary of the navy, See also:George Bancroft, and was opened in See also:October of that year. Originally a course of study for five years was pre-scribed, but only the first and last were spent at the school, the other three being passed at sea. The See also:present name was adopted when the school was reorganized in 185o, being placed under the supervision of the See also:chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and See also:Hydrography, and under the immediate See also:charge of the superintendent, and the course of study was extended to seven years; the first two and the last two to be spent at the school, the intervening three years to be passed at sea. The four years of study were made consecutive in 1851, and the practice cruises were substituted for the three consecutive years at sea. At the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War the three upper classes were detached and were ordered to sea, and the academy was removed to Fort See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams, See also:Newport, Rhode See also:Island (May 1861), but it was brought back to Annapolis in the summer of 1865. The supervision of the academy was transferred from the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography to the Bureau of Navigation when that bureau was established in 1862; and, although it was placed under the See also:direct care of the Navy Department in 1867, it has been (except in 1869-1889) under the Bureau of Navigation for administrative routine and See also:financial management. The See also:Spanish-See also:American War greatly emphasized its importance, and the academy was almost wholly rebuilt and much enlarged in IS99-1906.
' The old quarters of the superintendent, a colonial house, once the See also:official See also:residence of the See also:governors of Maryland, was destroyed in 1900. In 1909 old Fort Severn, a small circular structure with thick walls, built in 18oq, was torn down.
See J. R. Soley, See also:Historical See also:Sketch of the United States Naval Academy (See also:Washington, 1876) ; See also:Park See also:Benjamin, The United States Naval Academy (New See also:York, Iwo) ; See also:Randall Blackshaw, " The New Naval Academy," in the See also:Century See also:Magazine for October 1905.
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