Word: camped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...close of the S. A. T. C. Camp held at Plattsburg from July 18 to September 16, 59 University men were commissioned as second lieutenants. The majority received commissions in infantry, but a certain percentage secured appointments as field artillery officers. These latter will attend a two months' artillery school at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, and will from there be assigned to regular units. Of the officers commissioned in infantry the greater number have been stationed as instructors in the various colleges east of the Mississippi, while the remainder have been ordered to Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois...
Plattsburg, N. Y., June 13, 1918.--The Government Camp for R. O. T. C.'s is being conducted here in the same manner as the first two Officers' Camps last summer. The officers in charge of the camp are endeavoring to cover all the ground in a month that was covered before in three. Most of the work will consist of drill and conferences, but all the phases of modern warfare, such as bayonet fighting, trench-building, the use of gas, and the construction of obstacles, will be studied. A week's hike under full field equipment will conclude...
...company commander and he is assisted by a first lieutenant of the national army and a second lieutenant of the regular army. The quota of any one institution is usually distributed throughout one battalion. All representatives of the University except the ones who had been detailed to Camp Devens are in the first battalion with the quotas from three Southern colleges, Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Norwich, and a few from Williams and Amherst...
...already in the Harvard R. O. T. C., who are to enter the summer camp, and who have filled out enrolment blanks, are required to call at Military Headquarters for Physical Examination Certificates...
Although other details of the organization for the summer camp are not to be announced until later, these appointments will take care of the problems of immediate interest. From the point of view of the undergraduate who is training here it will be reassuring to know that his instruction and the enforcement of the regulations that concern him are not to be in the hands of a group of men, many of whom may have had less military experience than he himself, but rather of those who have directed the work of the Corps on Soldiers Field, in barracks...