Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Regiment was notable for its size and for the cooperative spirit of its members, which was at least equal to that at the Junior Plattsburg camp. Naturally many of its enlistments were the result of mob psychology. It was one of the things that was "being done...
With much this same reason desire for complete proficiency from actual military experience, Harvard far exceeded any other college in enrolment at Plattsburg. Here was learned the essentials of leadership under army conditions and in the service of the Federal Government--clearly a far better training for officers than a course in military science...
...This year the War Department will furnish the equipment supplied to the regular army, and will also supply traveling expenses to all those in the course who go to Plattsburg...
...mean a call for more volunteers, but whatever developments occur the attitude of Harvard undergraduates towards the present critical situation should be sane. Naturally every man wants to serve his country, and fulfill his military duty towards her immediately. Four or five hundred have already signed up for the Plattsburg Camps. Others cannot attend the camps and yet have had no military training. These are the men who should pause and regard the facts of our relations with Mexico in a sober light. Rushing to enlist in a burst of patriotic enthusiasm will do no good until the government...
Mass meetings have been held, prominent men have spoken and written, the Student Council has held an ambitious "Preparedness Week," and now the campaign for Plattsburg enlistments is over. Today is the last time undergraduates may enroll for the summer camps, the last opportunity they will have to announce publicly that they are willing to serve their country in time of need...