Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...change in the status of the summer training camps including Plattsburg has been planned which will affect the plans of members of the University who have considered going to Plattsburg or to similar camps instead of joining the Reserve Officers' Training Corps in order not to obligate themselves definitely...
...right lines. I agree thoroughly with General Wood on the subject of intensive training for the R. O. T. C., and believe that the development of officers in the American universities is of vital importance to the country. They cannot do better than to carry out the Plattsburg idea of military training. I am immensely impressed with the situation in the colleges of the United States today, and the work of their members is being watched with interest by the countries on both sides of the water...
...terminated at the end of this special examination period. If the approval of the War Department is obtained, the entire University will then be turned into an officers' training camp and the remainder of the year devoted to military instruction with summer camps held here instead of at Plattsburg...
...last two years Captain Bowen has been stationed at Fort Williams, Portland, Me., with the Coast Artillery. He has in that time had considerable experience in the operation of military training camps; at Plattsburg last summer he served as a quartermaster, and was in charge of the construction of the camp itself...
...have the drilling later under the directions of the students who are preparing for the officers' reserve corps. At a meeting held on Monday, Major Cochran a member of Governor Whitman's staff assembled all Columbia students who have had military training in the National Guard, at a Plattsburg camp, or at West Point. Drilling began Monday afternoon, when a squad of 25 such men started a course of training which will fit them to lead a battalion of students...