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...close of the S. A. T. C. Camp held at Plattsburg from July 18 to September 16, 59 University men were commissioned as second lieutenants. The majority received commissions in infantry, but a certain percentage secured appointments as field artillery officers. These latter will attend a two months' artillery school at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, and will from there be assigned to regular units. Of the officers commissioned in infantry the greater number have been stationed as instructors in the various colleges east of the Mississippi, while the remainder have been ordered to Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois...
...Plattsburg S. A. T. C. Camp was at first conducted with no idea of training directly for commissions, but was instituted for the purpose of furnishing non-commissioned instructors for college S. A. T. C.'s. Of the 3,000 odd who attended the camp, however, 1,500 were commissioned. Those not commissioned will return to their respective college...
...discipline. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in the class of 1912, and was commissioned first lieutenant at the completion of his training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. He served with the Fiftieth Infantry until May 31, 1918; since then he has been an instructor at Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y. Promoted to his present rank September 6, 1918. Captain Wright was assigned to the University as assistant military instructor...
...This year's Class Day is going to be far different from Class Days in the past. There will be no impressive Stadium exercises, and out of a class of five hundred only half the Seniors will be on hand. Last year we had a war-time ceremony, but Plattsburg was emptied for the day, the first marshal was on hand, and the day passed almost as in normal times. But the days of Plattsburg Training Camps are over; the Seniors of 1918 are scattered broadcast in the different branches of the service and very few will be present...
...Plattsburg, N. Y., June 13, 1918.--The Government Camp for R. O. T. C.'s is being conducted here in the same manner as the first two Officers' Camps last summer. The officers in charge of the camp are endeavoring to cover all the ground in a month that was covered before in three. Most of the work will consist of drill and conferences, but all the phases of modern warfare, such as bayonet fighting, trench-building, the use of gas, and the construction of obstacles, will be studied. A week's hike under full field equipment will conclude...