Word: plattsburgers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Artaxerxes, and all the world between the Tigris and the Euphrates, are a far journey from Plattsburg via the Lackawanna and the Jersey City ferry. Yet we may, mounting on a convenient elephant, make the journey from one paragraph to the next...
...Plattsburg elephant-gray ponchos have been issued for our future officers. All reports indicate that they have fitted the wearers physically, spiritually, and artistically, as the glove fits the hand, or as the elephant's hide--for that matter--fits the elephant...
President Lowell has received word from Plattsburg to the effect that all Seniors of the University at the Training Camp will be allowed a leave of absence of 24 hours in order that they may attend the Class Day exercises on Tuesday, June 19. This will add materially to the success of the exercises, since many of the class officers, including the three Marshals, will be present by this special arrangement. In order that the men may catch an early train back to Plattsburg, the Stadium exercises on Tuesday afternoon have been put ahead an hour, and will be held...
...total is 201 members of the class have left college. The unit which attracted the most attention was Unit No. 1 of the Aero Coast Patrol, which has been under intensive training at Palm Beach, Florida. It was the first unit to leave college. Of the officers' training camps, Plattsburg drew the largest number, while only three of the camps are not included in the list. Representatives of the class are enrolled in 36 different units...
...second increment of 500,000 men of the new army, Adjutant General McCain announced in an official statement Saturday. The number of camps has been reduced to eight, in place of the 16 that are now training officers for the first 500,000. There will be no Plattsburg in the second series. The sites for the fall camps being for the most part in the south on account of climatic considerations. In general, qualifications for admission to these camps will be the same as for the first series, but an effort will be made to obtain men at least...