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...concludes the writer whose nom de plume is 1898, "that its graduates should have taken so prompt and prominent a part in this patriotic movement." It would be well for students now in college to scan the record of those New York graduates who were the pioneers of Plattsburg...
Probably no group of men realize more fully than those who have been to Plattsburg how much training is required to make an efficient army officer, and what slight progress can be made through the medium of the Battalion under consideration. Nor does the average man of no such experience as that of Plattsburg expect to attain to any large degree of military preparedness in the necessarily limited time which can be given to the drill and instruction of the large group of men now signed up. In fact I am convinced that for many of us the actual military...
...absolutely untrue. A man may be discharged at any time for business reasons or upon removal of his place of abode. The two chief requisites are attendance at camp for a period of eight days in summer (where, by the way, one will get more real work than at Plattsburg) and attendance at drills once a week during the winter. The former requirement will preclude men who live so far away that they could not return for the summer encampment, but these will be in the minority...
...year only, the work beginning as soon as possible and ending shortly before the final examination period. There will be no practice during the midyear examinations and the April recess. No summer work is included in the schedule, but the men are urged to attend the summer camp at Plattsburg if possible...
...will be Exeter, Andover, Pomfret, and other boarding schools in New England, and possibly some from neighboring states. The detailed plans will be worked out by a committee representing all the schools which will send boys to the camp. The training will be somewhat more moderate than that at Plattsburg, which would be too severe for the younger boys, but it will be along the same lines...