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...Regiment gained its success in the enthusiasm it aroused for an essential cause and in emulation by other colleges. It had the greatest success in the hundreds of Harvard men who went to the Plattsburg camps, there to undergo a period of more intensive training...
Harvard regards with justice that her service to the cause of national preparedness and the Plattsburg camps, and to the cause of humanity in the ambulance service of France is unsurpassed. Our lead in graduates who have offered their services to the warring powers is natural because no other university has closer ties of friendship with Europe...
College Men in Majority at Plattsburg...
More than three-fifths of the men who took summer training at Plattsburg this summer were college men. The University had the highest number of men the camp, with a total representation 1,482. Yale came second with 855 and Princeton took third place among the colleges with 720 men at the camp. Following is the list of the first 13 college represented with their student, alumni and total enrolments as appearing "The Phillipian," Phillips Andover Academy: Colleges Students Alum. Harvard, 417 1,065 Yale, 187 668 Princeton, 245 475 Columbia, 42 637 Cornell, 90 493 Univ...
...Cadet Basis," Mr. Nelson writes breezily of Plattsburg and succeeds in packing a great many reminiscences into his six pages. The atmosphere is true to life in every detail; but if Mr. Nelson had gone to the August camp he would have had no boiled fish...