Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unable to afford Plattsburg and would consent to act as waiters there, should call at the Regimental Headquarters...
...enlistment office at 1280 Massachusetts avenue will be open to receive enlistments for the last time next Wednesday between 8 and 10 o'clock in the morning and 4.30 and 7.30 o'clock in the afternoon. At this time information will be furnished and enlistments may be made for Plattsburg, the Summer Naval Cruise, the Flying Corps, and the Aviation Camp on Long Island...
...faculties of Dartmouth and Bowdoin have recently taken action in regard to the summer camps at Plattsburg. Their plan is to allow a man to count his summer spent at one of the camps towards his degree. Bowdoin has qualified this slightly, and will require certain military courses given by the college before the training gained at Plattsburg can count towards a college degree...
...criticism of such a plan is that a college lowers its true, academic standard, when the time spent in physical drill is considered equivalent to the same number of hours consumed in translating French prose. Anyone who knows the amount and character of the work required at the Plattsburg Camps realizes that five weeks' drill regarded as a practical supplement to specified courses ought to count towards a student's college degree...
...office at 1280 Massachusetts avenue will be open this morning between 8 and 12 o'clock and this afternoon between 4.30 and 7.30 o'clock. Enlistments may then be made for Plattsburg, the Summer Naval Cruise, the Flying Corps, and the Aviation Camp on Long Island...