The excrcises lasted until noon and the inspector did not have an idle moment. He was parti-
cularly impressed by the work of the Signal Detachment under Capt. G. Earl Wallis, and the
Machine Gun work under Captain Allen Slichter.
The work of two companies in intensive training (two companies had already gone to the
training camp at Fort Sheridan) was also exhibited to the inspector and excited his favorable
comment.
The afternoon's work consisted in an attack by a force under Colonel Fred J. Hodges upon the
trenches constructed by the companies undergoing intensive training. These trenches were
defended by the intensives themselves and the Machine Gun Company under Major C. M.
Jansky. The attacking force was so superior in numbers that the capture of the trenches was
inevitable, but the defense was so stubborn that the mission of the defenders would have been
accomplished under the terms of the problem.
Although the report of the inspector could not have been more favorable, it failed to secure
for the University a 'distinguished'' rating because at the date of inspection no unit of the Re-
serve Officers' Training Corps had been established and the War Department had decided to
rate as distinguished institutions only those at which such units had been organized.
But if not distinguished in name, is not the Corps of Cadcts, University of Wisconsin, dis-
tinguished in fact by its two hundred odd representatives, members of the Corps during the
academic year 191-1917, who are serving as commissioned officers in the armed forces of their
country?
I\CE leaving the University of Wisconsin in November, 1910, Major Wrightson, atthat time
a captain, has had a great variety of experience and has again seen actual service. With
his regiment he accompanied General Pershing's forces in the Mexican campaign, and in his
campaign he reached a point in the interior of Mexico 150 miles south of the border. Upon the
withdrawal of our troops Major Wrightson, with the Seventeenth Infantry, was detailed for duty
guarding interned German sailors at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Upon the outbreak of the war
he was detailed as an instructor and company commander in the Officers' Training Camp at
Chicamauga Park, Georgia. In August, 1917, Major Wrightson received his promotion to the
grade of major, and in the following October he was detailed for duty as Professor of Military
Scince and Tactics at the Michigan \griculturl College, in which capacity he is now serving.
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