teach a formal course in hygiene, the only course required by Congress of any military academy.
In 1890, Navy adopted the goat mascot after winning its first football game with Army.
=== The Flagg Academy: Spanish–American War to WWI ===
The Spanish–American War of 1898 greatly increased the academy's importance and the campus was almost wholly rebuilt and much enlarged between 1899 and 1906. The ground on which most of the academy sat was dredged from the surrounding bodies of water and consisted of silt. This was too fragile for the newer heavy stone buildings. Pilings were sunk from 100 feet (30 m) to 400 feet (120 m) deep. Some wooden with iron caps; modern ones of steel. Today's campus dates from that era. In 1905, Isherwood Hall, containing the Department of Marine Engineering, was constructed.
Prior to that era, about 43 men entered annually. There were 114 joining the class of 1905, 201 with the class of 1908.
The academy built a modern hospital in 1907, the fourth in sequence, on what is today called …
