Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...directly concerned by this new scheme, since a commission is the diploma of our military education, the present goal of most undergraduates. Abolition of Plattsburg officers' training camps together with the encouraged promotion of men from the ranks, leaves preliminary instruction more necessary than ever. Whether or not the present system of sending men to Yaphank continues, we know that ultimately a man of sufficient calibre will be an officer, and that thorough preparation will hasten the attainment of this end. The duty of R. O. T. C.'s is to provide not merely candidates for special camps, but soldiers...
...truth. The work of the colored troops in the last, Mexican affair was nothing short of marvelous; they bore the brunt of the fighting and acquitted themselves gloriously. The negro cavalry is equal to the best we have in the Army, and the War College cavalrymen stationed at Plattsburg during the summer of 1916 were a source of admiration to every student. A captain in this same 24th Infantry told a CRIMSON representative that he would rather lead negro troops than any others...
...list printed in yesterday's CRIMSON of the University men who received commissions at the second Plattsburg Training Camp there were several omissions, among them the names of the following...
When the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps sent its delegation to the second Federal camp at Plattsburg last August, there were not a few in Cambridge who knew that these men would succeed. Such a view was founded on the best of reasons--the instruction here had been excellent and these men had worked. Many of them had been competing for the chosen places at Plattsburg since last April, for at the time of the first camp they were too young to enter. They spent hard months at Cambridge and hard weeks at Barre with a serious purpose, and when...
...CRIMSON publishes below from various sources a list of University graduates and undergraduates who were chosen for the second Plattsburg Training Camp. The list, which is as complete as could be made up, includes 179 men, of which number, the greater part were formerly members of last year's R. O. T. C. Most of the men are members of the New England Training Regiment...