Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...newly appointed Professor of Military Science and Tactics, had to combat that apathy before he could arouse enthusiasm. How well he succeeded is shown by the great success of the Regiment, which became an example and a standard throughout the country. The hundreds of men who last summer attended Plattsburg received their initial impulse to prepare themselves for national service from the inspiration of the Harvard Commandant...
...hundred and seven Brown men have left college to enter the military service or agriculture. Of these, 27 went to Plattsburg, 38 are in the Naval Reserve, 25 in the artillery, and 100 men on farms...
...Corps at the Recorder's office since the Easter recess; of this number 36 have been finally rejected because of physical disqualification or other reasons. Of the remainder 439 have so far been enlisted, making the total number of the Corps at present, not counting the men called to Plattsburg, over 900. President Hadley of Yale was in conference with President Lowell yesterday, and it is believed that several hundred men of that institution will report for duty at the camp established here after the existing Yale Corps disbands...
...members of the University who were accepted for the Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg had all arrived at the camp by yesterday noon, and with the two thousand other potential officers spent the day in obtaining equipment and getting settled in their new quarters...
...training of which must be done in the open; but, there is no telling what the exigencies of the present war may require and it may become necessary to keep a large number of troops at the post throughout the winter. While this is my first visit to Plattsburg, I was for a year stationed at Fort Ontario, where climatic conditions are practically the same as here...