Ralph Osborn, Midshipman at Annapolis: A Story of Life at the U.S. Naval Academy - Edward L. Beach

W. A. WILDE COMPANY
BOSTON CHICAGO

Copyrighted, 1909
By W. A. Wilde Company

Ralph Osborn—Midshipman at Annapolis

PREFACE

The purpose of this story is to bring before the American youth who read it a correct portrayal of midshipman life at Annapolis, to bring out in story form the routine of drills, studies and customs of our Naval Academy, the discipline there undergone by American midshipmen and the environment in which they live and which controls them from the time they enter.

“The Osborn Demonstration” of the Pythagorean problem may not be new. It hardly seems reasonable that such a simple solving of this ancient problem should be discovered at this late date. However, it is certainly shorter and more graphic than any given in present day geometry text-books. Some search has been made, but up to the present no evidence has been found showing previous knowledge of this method of demonstration.