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...Crimson exhortation may hve done some good towards heightening the general interest. Although their condemnation of summer camps had little effect. The Harvard delegation to Plattsburg in the summer of 1915 was larger than that of any other institution; out of 612 college men at the camp, 84 were Harvard undergraduates. Their training must have been good, for the recordes tell no story of men bogged down by the 75 mile march, filled with mancuvering of every description, which ended the summer's work...
...stationed in Hollywood, where he has spent the last 18 months preparing a treatise on the movie industry. But this time he came to let the studio heads know what the Government would like them to do. Quickly announced were two forthcoming films on conscription-Yankee Doodle Goes to Plattsburg, You're in the Army...
Osteopath Charles T. Markert of Ridgefield Park, N. J. was a good friend of Mr. Walter Freiwald, an accountant in nearby Bogota. So when Mr. Freiwald's 22-year-old son Walter Jr. came home from Plattsburg military training camp last July with infected tonsils. Osteopath Markert, himself only 25, offered to spare the family the expense of a hospital and surgeon. He invited his boyhood friend and schoolmate, Osteopath Thomas O. Maxfield, 27, of Maplewood, to come to his office and remove Walter's tonsils...
...Judge Patterson was wearing an Army private's blue fatigue overalls when he got his new job last week. In fact he was on the lowest detail which an Army private can get: kitchen police (taking out garbage, chopping wood) at the Plattsburg training camp. Colonel James I. Muir, the camp commander, forthwith ordered him out of the kitchen, was relieved to catch K. P. Patterson just before he began his menial chore...
Something to take along to Plattsburg for extracurricular reading. The author is a colonel on the German General Staff, the translator is Theodore Knauth of NBC's staff in Berlin. Major George Fielding Eliot calls it a "masterly exposition." Colonel Foertsch's doctrine calls for open-mindedness and adaptability in the individual officer; his discussion of modern land tactics (including the rationale of tank attacks, smoke screens, plunging fire, etc.) makes a useful addition to the sum of human knowledge...