Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island: At the Annual Opening, June Third, Nineteen Hundred and One The enterprise is now well beyond the stage of experiment. Its friends can have no fears for the future. Seventeen years have passed since the first steps were taken to bring into being an institution that should provide for the higher education of officers of the Navy. During its early struggle for existence, the Naval far College met and dissi pated that cloud of prejudices which is almost sure to envelope a project in its nature novel and experimental. The College has survived for the reason that faith has been kept with the promises of those who stood as its sponsors. Already how excellent is the record. How clearly do we now see that the work done within these walls lifts the officer into a higher atmosphere, broadens his conceptions, and brings him distinctly nearer to that ideal standard of development which it has ever been the aspiration of the American Navy to attain. 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.