Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Final information concerning the June Camp at Plattsburg was received by the University Military Office on Saturday in the form of an order from the War Department. The main points brought out by this official communication are, in substance, as follows...
...offered to give instruction in bayonet and grenade work to a second group of R. O. T. C. men, beginning June 3. It is planned to send 32 men to take advantage of this opportunity. All members of the R. O. T. C. who have signed up for the Plattsburg camp are assured of a month's training during June either at the Government R. O. T. C. camp, or at Camp Devens, as the organization of the second Devens detachment reduces the number of remaining June Camp candidates to within the quota allowed the corps by the War Department...
Princeton is strongly advocating the attendance of her undergraduates at the Junior Plattsburg Military Training Camp this summer, and men from many other colleges are enrolled in the list of applicants from which 600 cadets will be selected for three months' training. The camp is planned to provide military instruction for men in the summer, who in the academic year are busy with their studies. It has received the approbation of the President, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of the Navy...
Training at the Junior Plattsburg is divided into four main groups or divisions: Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Naval. The camp site, on the shore of Lake Champlain, affords ample room for all the military divisions. The drill grounds are large and of such composition that they are peculiarly adapted to maneuvering with infantry, cavalry and artillery...
...hours except those scheduled for Wednesday morning, May 29, Friday morning, May 31, and Saturday morning, June 1, which will be three hours. These special examinations are held for students who have recently given notice to the Military Headquarters that they expect to join the Junior Training Camp at Plattsburg, which begins on Monday, June 3. Students taking these early final examinations will not be required to attend their college exercises during the period of these examinations...