Excerpt from Faculty of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, 1954-55 The Naval Academy is neither a university nor a training establishment. It is distinctly a naval college, the four-year undergraduate college of the great naval university. Its position is analagous, for example, to that of Columbia College in relation to Columbia University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.