Word: plattsburgers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Government camps will be allowed to remain, and new men, undergraduates and graduates, from this and other colleges, will be admitted. Men of 20 years and nine months of age or older who have had any considerable military training already, are advised to apply for admission to Plattsburg or the corresponding camp in their section of the country. Those who do not succeed, and all other men over 20 years old and physically fit, are strongly urged to enroll in the Harvard Corps; in the belief that, although to do so will not lead to a commission in three months...
...decide to apply for admission to the Federal camps for the training of officers there is a serious responsibility ahead of them. So many have gone to Plattsburg camps during the last few years for a pleasant summer outing that there is some danger that they will regard the next three months' instruction in the same light. When once accepted by the commanding officer of one of these camps, a man agrees to report at any camp signified and to accept any commission in the new army which is to be formed in the fall. The present conflict will...
...same basis as the Federal Training Camps--that is, so that members of this unit of the prescribed age can be commissioned in the Officers' Reserve Corps at the end of three months' intensive training on exactly the same footing as men who go to the Plattsburg and other Federal Training Camps...
...hundred thousand. The system of officers' training camps which have already been authorized will give this. Since it is doubtful whether a federal camp is to be established in Cambridge, all those in the R. O. T. C. at present who fulfill the requirements for the regular camp at Plattsburg should at once make application for the camp beginning May 8 at the headquarters at 42 Water Street. Captain Cordier is making every possible effort in Washington to have either a junior or a federal camp established here, but we shall not know whether he is successful...
There are several strong reasons for the establishment of a unit of the Training Corps in Cambridge which may secure a favorable decision from the War Department. At present, with the transfer of that camp which was to have been stationed at Fort Ethan Allen to Plattsburg, there is no camp in New England. The location of the University at the centre of a group of colleges makes it particularly available...