Fourteen lieutenants of the United States Navy are stationed at the Engineering School for one year of advanced study in communication engineering, one of the most important subjects in modern naval operations, according to Professor G. W. Pierce '01, director of the Cruft Memorial Laboratory, with whom the naval officers are studying. The Navy Department sends selected graduates of Annapolis to the best civil institutions for concentration in certain fields of advanced study after their first six year cruise, and one year of post-graduate work in the Naval Academy."

Professor Pierce is one of the leading authorities in this country in the field of communication engineering. The naval officers who are studying under him will work with the the hydrophone, an instrument used for depth finding, signalling under water, and transmission of speech through the sea. The radio will be the special field of some of the men, as the primary, and often the only means of communication at sea.

Electric hydrophone beacons are being used now where formerly light-houses and bells were the only guides. Fog and rough weather make the older methods unreliable or utterly useless, while the electric vibrations transmitted through the sea, and registered by the hydrophone, are not seriously affected by weather conditions.

The lieutenants studying electrical communication are Vaughan Bailey, F. H. Callahan, W. L. Fuseman, W. G. Jones, J. J. Pierrepont, C. A. Rumble, A. R. Taylor, and J. A. Terhune.

The lieutenants studying climatology are the following: C. M. Alvord, V. O. Clapp, W. E. Gist, H. B. Hutchinson, R. H. Smith, and H. M. Wescoat.