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Show CONDITIONS AT NAVAL ACADEMY CAUSE OF CONCERN . Washington. June ti Although conditions con-ditions existing at the United States Naval academy at Annapolis are giving giv-ing the navy ' department officials much concern, it is not considered probable that Secretary Meyer will adopt radical corrective measures until un-til Captain Bowyer relieves Captain Badger as superintendent, this month. The recent report of a board of flvo naval officers specially detailed at the academy, which was in substance that physical exercises now in vogue, were responsible for poor physique common com-mon among recent graduates and midshipmen mid-shipmen has been borne In a sure bv the failure of 43 out of 180 mld-shiDmen mld-shiDmen to graduate this year, on ae-eounT ae-eounT of physical disability. Most of . . theso who failed however Jected. it is said, because of defective eyesight. |