Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...response to numerous requests from men who were at the Plattsburg Military Camp last summer, Captain Roger Dyer Swaim '01, of the First Battalion of Field Artillery, M. V. M., has arranged from school from volunteers who wish to train with a view to taking command of citizen forces, should and emergency call them into the field to defend the country...
Boston is to have a professional and business men's military training camp this winter similar to that held at Plattsburg, N. Y., last summer. The plan has been arranged by Major Leonard Wood M.D. '84, who originated the idea of the Plattsburg camp...
None of them apparently have been to Plattsburg, none of them has been in the woods or on a ranch or out at the Exposition; and only one--a candidate--has read the newspapers. The war, which has filled the thoughts of most of us, has not troubled the Advocate board since it brought unexpected notoriety to the paper last spring. The all-absorbing topic is relegated to the book-review section and to one little poem at the very end of the number...
Princeton had the largest delegation sent by any university to the college Military Instruction Camp at Plattsburg this summer, sending 48 undergraduates. In the camp for business men Princeton was represented by 120 alumni and the Princeton team won the rifle shoot. That university has taken almost more interest in the camp than any other of the larger universities...
...University delegation to the summer military camp at Plattsburg, N.Y., was larger than that from any other institution. Out of a total of 612 college men, 84 were Harvard undergraduates, and in the business men's section which totalled 1300, nearly one-third were Harvard graduates. The camp this summer was very successful in every particular; the usual rigid discipline and careful instruction was in order, and an unusually large number of men were recommended as commissioned officers of volunteers. The season closed with at 75 mile march which was filled with maneouvering of every description...