Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-07-14
\ Short Record of a Successful
school
VERMONT EpiscoPAL INSTITUTE, I
BURLINGTON, June "a, 1876. (


These following were among the spec
lately contained in condensed
Report TO the Trustees, made by the
Principal of this school the Rev. Theo.
A. Hopkins-for the 16 years he has
had sole charge of the same. The school
is not endowed but has supported itself
and paid oper ten ulousand dollars rental
to the diocese besides
" As 10 numbers. the school list
are the names Of 7l6. OF these ver-
mont has furnished (23 per cent?, 1853;
those from other states have numbered
553.
q As TO reputation. Boys have come
to my care from Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennes-
see, California, Louisiana, Florida, Geor-
gia, South Carolina, Washington, d. c.,
and from outside the Union, from Cuba,
Canada and Buenos Ayres, South Amer
lea. Some of my best pupils have been
kept with me for five years, though four
years and three years are more frequent
ly spent here, and some few only stay
one year.
3. As to the QUALITY Of The education
given By me.-My boys have entered, di-
rectly from my training, Harvard Col
lege, Mass. Yale College, Conn. Bow
doin College, Maine Dartmouth, N. H. !;
the University of Vermont, and Middle
bury College, Vermont; College Of Ply
sicians and Surgeons, Medical Depart
ment of Columbia College, of New York
city; Trinity College, Conn. ; Hobart
College, Geneva, N. Y; Cornell Uni
versity, Ithaca, N. Y; Williams Col
lege, Mass. Columbia College, N. Y.
city Bethlehem College, Penn; Knox
College, Illinois; Racine College, Wis
consin; Washington University, st. Lou
is, Mo. !; Rutgers College, New Jersey /;
Princeton College. New Jersey the I'm
iversity of Georgia, and especially West
Point Military Academy as well as the
Polytechnic School, of Troy, N. Y;
also St. Stephens College, Anandale.
l have never once offered candidate
to any college or university who was re-
jected
A. As to military drill For the past
twelve years my boys have formed a
battalion, and have every Summer sus-
tanned the regular military drill in the
United States infantry tactics, with bay
onet exercise. Public exercises in mill
tary drill, dress parade and bayonet ex
ercises have been held on the City Square
Of Burlington, annually in June, and
, several years also at Plattsburgh, N. Y
(Which is military post.) They have
invariably elected high praise from Uni
: ted States Military Generals when pres
ent, and by none were more fatterinE
I compliments paid to them than by Gen
Sheridan, at whose reception, by the city
. Of Burlington, they assisted, when h,
was here in 1868. The military drill il
: still sustained, and to the same Cor high
g er) degree of efficiency.
f 5. Asto Christian character. K One hun
! dred and twenty-seven of my pupil
r have made profession of Christianity
e while under my training, and they hav
, uniformly proved faithful in Christian
: integrity of character in after years.
!, 6. Besides those who have entered col
J lege, fully one half have entered stores
insurance offices, medical schools, theo
logical schools, law schools, and post
offices. Several have become Unite,
1 States military officers in the Regula
b Army, having graduated at West Point
t some became underteachers in schools
or returned to their farms, or entered
r some of the higher walks of life. Min,
? of the pupils became underteachers il
| the Institute itself, during the sixteel
, years of its existence, and have alway
e proved most efficient. Our curren
school year is successful as usual, an,
our next reopens on August 30
This school has never asked a dolla
of its friends, to aid in its support from
the day of its opening, in 1860; but OF
, the contrary has helped others largely
, II y
: All of which is respectfully submitted
THEo. A. HOPKINS.
Principal of Vt. Episcopal Institute.