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...ROTC spent a long and anxious week pondering their fate. Finally the War Department announced that ROTC training at Harvard would be given at least at the summer camp. Most of the men over 20 years old in the unit left to train in officers' camps of the Plattsburg type, while younger men continued to train at College...
Robert Porter Patterson, 51, a blunt, monkish onetime Federal Appeals Court judge, was doing K.P. duty in the Army reserve camp at Plattsburg the day he was appointed Assistant Secretary of War. In Washington he got an equally messy job: channeling the Army's swollen, muddied procurement program. He went to work in shirt sleeves, vest dangling, jaws chomping gum, his right arm working like a pump handle as he announced decisions. Soon he was promoted to Under Secretary. Judicial Bob Patterson's plodding, plugging methods have led him down many a blind alley. But they have also...
...supervised the first R. O. T. C. courses given here, but most of the actual instruction was by regular Harvard professors, such as Professor Julian Lowell Cooldige '95, who retired a year ago as Master of Lowell House. These professors had received training during the previous summer at Plattsburg, and were considered qualified to give military instruction...
These Reserves, plus a large regular Army and a larger National Guard have obviated the need for large civilian officers training camps like Plattsburg in the last...
...formed January 10, 1916. Harvard's first contribution, in a strictly military way, towards preparation for war, the Regiment was a revolutionary innovation. Membership was voluntary, no training was scheduled during examination periods and vacations and no summer work was required; but men were urged to attend camp at Plattsburg. The old Hemenway Gymnasium and the baseball cage were used as drilling grounds in the winter time. Rifles, bayonets, and belts, were furnished by the government, but that was all. The Regiment had no government connection, and carried no course credit toward a degree...