Annual Register of Annapolis For the Academic Year 1904-05 900+ pages, indexed - Bonus Book #1 – For the Academic Year 1867-68 By L. F. Johnson, 1912 52 pages, indexed - Bonus Book #2 – For the Academic Year 1887-88 111 pages, indexed ******************************************************** Digital Book CD Requires Adobe Reader 3.0 or higher to View ******************************************************************* $11.99 + $1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/Annapolis-US-Naval-Academy-Annual-Register-1904-05-/200413101259?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ea98d3ccb The U. S. Naval Academy was founded as the Naval School in 1845 by Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft. The campus was established at Annapolis on the grounds of the former U.S. Army post Fort Severn. The school opened on 10 October with 50 Midshipmen students and seven professors. Originally a course of study for five years was prescribed. Only the first and last were spent at the school with the other three being passed at sea. The present name was adopted when the school was reorganized in 1850. Under the immediate charge of the superintendent, the course of study was extended to seven years with the first two and the last two to be spent at the school and the intervening three years at sea. The four years of study were made consecutive in 1851 and practice cruises were substituted for the three consecutive years at sea. The first class of Naval Academy students graduated on 10 June 1854