Word: plattsburg
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...Camps Association has announced the time and location for the camps to be held in the Eastern and Central Departments in the summer of 1917. The Eastern Department, comprising the Atlantic coast states and those west of the lower Mississippi and the Ohio will have its senior encampment at Plattsburg, N. Y. Four campst will be held as follows: June 2 to July 1; July 7 to August 5; August 11 to September 9, and September 15 to October 14. Junior camps in this department for boys between 15 and 18 years of age will be held at Fort Terry...
...think the drill will be of aid both to men who have gone to Plattsburg or other training camps and to those who have had no military instruction. Furthermore, it seems to me that such drill would be helpful in every branch...
...soon be revised and adjusted to meet the natural requirements of the University. Of course the specifications as to drill, including numerous hours each week, are very difficult for Harvard to accept as contributory to the requirements of its B. A. degree. But there are the summer camps at Plattsburg to supply the men with just the kind of drill and indeed even better, that the War Department has always required and surely attendance at Plattsburg will be found an adequate substitute. --Boston Transcript...
...battalion will continue until a declaration of war makes further steps necessary, or until peace is made. The students who have had experience at Plattsburg will assist in drilling the untrained...
...expect to get a minimum number for the Plattsburg camps alone this year of over 25,000. In addition there will be a large number of boys in the junior camps, as so far at least 10,000 have applied. The history of the training camp movement shows a steady progress in numbers. The first year, 1913, the attendance only amounted to 222. The next year, 1914, the numbers increased to 667. In 1915 the first business men's camp' was held at Plattsbutg, and the total attendance was 3; 406. Last year the numbers had grown...