DARTMOUTH MEN AT PLATTSBURG

A hundred undergraduates and eight members of the faculty made up Dartmouth's delegation in the Students' Army Training Corps unit at Plattsburg Barracks this summer. At the start of the camp it was intended that the men trained should return to their respective colleges as instructors in the S. A. T. C. units there. Later, owing to the lowering of the draft age and the shortage of officers, the War Department authorized headquarters at Plattsburg to recommend men who were qualified for second lieutenancies in infantry and artillery. Nearly all the Dartmouth men twenty years of age or older received commissions in one of these two branches. This included about fifty men.

At a still later date orders were sent out from Washington to commission a limited number of men between eighteen and twenty, and as a result ten more Dartmouth men received commissions. The remaining forty men, most of whom were under twenty, returned to college to attend the S. A. ,T. C. camp here. Shortly after the opening of College, however, the greater part of these men were ordered to Officers' Training Camps in Virginia for further training for commissions.

Of the men commissioned at Plattsburg. all those under twenty and about half of those above that age who received infantry lieuten-ancies were detailed as instructors in S. A. T. C. units at colleges other than their own. The remaining infantry officers were sent to Camp Grant in Illinois, for further training, and all the artillery officers were ordered to Camp Taylor in Kentucky for similar further training. Three Dartmouth men were detailed to Camp Perry, in Ohio, to receive special training in small arms. . A few men were selected for a week's additional training at Plattsburg in personnel work, and were then assigned to various colleges not their own. These men were commissioned second lieutenants in the Adjutant General's Department.