Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.
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A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.
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The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.
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Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
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A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.
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As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.
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