Salt Lake Herald | 1891-12-02 | Page 1 | Commodore Ramsey's Report

Commodore Ramseys Report WASHINGTON Dec IIn his annual report re-port Commodure Ramsey chief of the bureau bu-reau of navigation devotes much attention to the naval academy He says a large number of candidates for admission fail to 1 pass the required examination Deleing this to be chiefly due to want of proper instructions in-structions he recommends that the tat utes be amended so that appointments be made a year inadvance of tho time of ad mission utner cnangos In the existing I dd1otfhatet statutes aro recommended so that the Ian governing the naval academy bo made similar t those governing the military academy amon them being oce fixing the age for admission at between fourteen and eighteen abandonment of the two years cruise and dismissal of surplus graduate upon completion of the four years course