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The Academy in almost all of its departments is now magnificently equipped, and it would be very unwise to make the course of instruction less exacting than it is to-day.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt praises the current state of the Naval Academy's facilities and warns against lowering academic rigor.

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