In honor of the 125th anniversary of the U.S. Naval Institute, the parent organization of Naval History magazine, the editors have compiled the following information from various sources to give readers a feel for the time when a group of concerned naval officers met at the U.S. Naval Academy to discuss naval, military, and political issues of the day. Those discussions, published in the Naval Institute's now-monthly Proceedings , have continued, unabated and open, for a century and a quarter.
