Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...outside of the University to join the Corps is now open. It need not be stated here what are the advantages which will accrue to the cadet from the system of training so ably laid down by the tactical staff of the Corps. Men who were good enough for Plattsburg, whether they are Brown, Dartmouth, Yale, Colby, Bates, or Tufts men, will have an unparalleled oportunity to prove what they may do. Nor is admission limited to college men. Non-college men of ability and character may here show their greater fitness to be officers above men of less ability...
...final selection of men to attend the Plattsburg camp has aroused some complaint, most of it apparently coming from men outside the University. In any game of life, foolish or real, there are always some among the losers to complain; although in most men the spirit of Saxon fairness is strong enough that they may bear defeat like gentlemen...
Captain Dupont, to whom was ascribed the report that the six Frenchmen were to be transferred to Plattsburg has made the following statement for the CRIMSON...
Approximately 350 members of the University have been accepted by the Government for the Officers' Training Camp to start at Plattsburg next Monday. A certain portion of this number have received orders to report at the camp on Saturday, May 12; those men of this class who are now in the R. O. T. C. of the University will be discharged from the Corps not later than tomorrow evening. The remainder of the men accepted will report at the camp on Monday, May 14, and those of this number in the R. O. T. C. here will be discharged after...
...that Captain Bowen has completed his work of examining men for admission to the Plattsburg training camp, he will reassume his duties with the Training Corps today or tomorrow...