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...Military Training Committee elected recently by the Princeton Plattsburg men has decided to establish a lecture course in the fundamentals of military science. The object of the lectures will be to explain to the students some of the principles of modern war, and to serve as an introduction to the work in the student summer military camps. The lectures will be given by officers of the regular army who will be sent down from Governor's Island for that purpose...
...hundred men are asked to sign up at once. If this is done, the knowledge of that fact will be passed about to other universities and colleges all over the country, greatly facilitating the work of the committee which has the summer camps in charge. Of the enrolment at Plattsburg last year one-third were Harvard men, and this proportion should be at least maintained...
...behooves all the members to determine to put their best into it during the next four months, that the Regiment may demonstrate its usefulness as a permanent institution in the University. And that means not only drilling, but attending the lectures in military science and planning for Plattsburg next summer...
...campaign for recruits for training camps next summer is to be raised by the Military Training Association. The money is to be expended under the supervision of a committee including Mayor Mitchel, President Lowell, and presidents of Yale, Princeton, Cornell and other leading educational institutions, and representatives of the Plattsburg Business Men's Camp Association, and the various camps that have been held for the training of college students...
...While it is not practicable at present to reach directly through private agency all the young men of the country, it is entirely feasible to bring the "Plattsburg idea" directly to the attention of over 1,000,000 college, high school and young business and professional men. A considerable proportion of these men are ready and eager to equip themselves to serve their country if only a practicable plan is presented to them. Such a plan is the summer training camp of the regular army...