Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first four days of the Preparedness Week Campaign have shown encouraging results. Although the new enlistments for the Plattsburg Camps have not been surprisingly large, there has been a great increase both in the interest and enrolments for the Naval Cruise and the recently organized Aero Camp on Long Island...
...fourth day of Preparedness Week the enlistment figures stand as follows: Plattsburg Junior Camp, 395; Plattsburg Senior Camp, 82; Naval Training Cruise, 43; Flying Corps, 69. Since the announcement yesterday that should twenty men agree to attend the Flying School, the money for their tuition would be forthcoming, the enrollments in this department showed a rapid increase. With but two days before the end of the week it is expected that the total figures in all departments will reach 700, there being at present 568 recorded...
...member of the Harvard Regiment who is desirous of attending the Plattsburg Camps, but who is unable to pay his own expenses, should submit an application in writing to Professor Theodore Lyman '97, Jefferson Laboratory. Such cases will be considered in order of their relative standing in the Regiment; i.e., the men who have been regular in their attendance at drills and other formations will be given the preference, all things considered, but every case will received careful considerations...
...fatherland monarch of conscience and dictator of action, surely it must be revolting to go killing the enemy when you think he is right. Though all sensible people, as General Wood said, desire peaceful settlement of troubles, yet honest attempts have failed and may fail again. And therefore Plattsburg, the naval cruise, and Harvard's Preparedness Week (with its large bouquets of "easy conscience...
...States, who wish to "understand its foreign policy and help to mould it," would enjoy and profit by attending the meetings this year. The cost is small; the experience is stimulating; the time is such that this conference may conveniently be made a preliminary to the July camps at Plattsburg. Any of the dozen University undergraduate and graduate students who were at last year's conference will be glad to give information, and full details can be obtained from the Intercollegiate Federation of International Polity Clubs, 40 Mt. Vernon street, Boston. W. G. RICE...