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Show OFFICERS DOING SPECIAL WORK Washington, March 1 7. Specialization Specializa-tion along certain lines of work in the navy is being sought by an increasing number of young officers and the 1 navy department now is meeting with I some difficulty in complying with the applications of lieutenants and junior lieutenants who have completed their first long term of sea duty The department de-partment realizes the advantage of 'specialization and so far as possible is selecting the most promising of the applicants for appointment to the naval academy as student officers. The courses taken by the student off leers .ire designed to develop ex- J perts iu ordnance, mechanical engi-Q( engi-Q( . rinn. electrical engineering, wireless wire-less telegraphy, shop management, naval na-val architecture and civil engineering. j The course In the naval academy Is supplemented by additional study In civil war, technical and scientific schools. t the present time 17 young officers are in these outside schools studying at the expense of the government |