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...American camps, on the other hand, in so far as we have allowed officers any additional instruction after they have completed their first "Plattsburg" training and received their commissions, it has been given them chiefly in conjunction with the manifold duties of their regular commands. They have remained responsible for carrying out the drill and instruction of the men in their companies. The result has been that advanced courses under the British and French officers could not be pursued with the singleness of purpose, the freshness of mental and physical effort, necessary to the task. The Americans were already...
...much ado about a fairly simple matter. There has been more fuss and complication about this one month of training than about any other camp in the history of the many training enterprises in which the University has been concerned. We may have had difficulties in enrolling for Plattsburg Training Camps last year and there were doubtless barriers in the path of those who wished to become officers at Devens and Upton, but these difficulties were mere jokes compared to the maze of complications which came in the wake of the present camp. First there were no application blanks, then...
...though the camp does not lead directly to a commission, it will be of the utmost value in the long run. This advantage of being regularly enrolled in the Government service is of great importance. A man who makes good at Plattsburg this summer will have done the best thing towards getting himself favorably considered when the time comes to enter an O. T. C. and will show directly to the real authorities that he is capable of the responsibilities and duties of an officer...
...Faculty meeting yesterday afternoon the Office was authorized to arrange special two-hour examinations for men going to the Plattsburg Junior Camp who have not already taken special finals...
...have had Plattsburg camps, hurry-up training schools for officers at the colleges and in the cantonments and we still have them. They are of untold importance for the supply of a need we could not meet, under existing circumstances, in any other way. Yet at best, they are only a partial substitute for those deeper laid foundations of an officer's efficiency which are possible only with years of training and upon a program of well-rounded development such as Princeton's commandant, Major John A. Pearson, U. S. A., has provided. It is the more nature advantages which...