Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-06-30
A Short Record Of a Successful school.


VERMONT EPISCOPAL INSTITUTE,
BURLINGTON. June "a. 1876
These following were among the specihca-
tiors lately contained in a condensed Report
to the Trustees. made oy the Principal
OF This school-the Rev. Theo A Hopkins
for the l6 years be has had sole charge of tie
same. The school is net endowed; but has
supported itself, and paid Orer ten thousand
dollars rental to the diocese besides:
AS 10 numbers On the school list are
the rames of 7l6. OF these Vermont has
furnished (23 per cent?, 1863; those from
other States have numbered 553.
,. As 10 repufafioH.-BOys have come to
my care from Maine, New Hampshire. Yer
mont, Massachusetts. Rhode Island .Counec-
ticut. New York. New Jersey, Penhsylvanis,
Maryland. Ohio. Illinois. Wisconsin. Mis-
souri,, Kentucky. Tennessee. Caliiornis,
Louisiana. Florida, Georgia, South Caro-
lima. Washington, ID. C.. and from outside
the Union, from Cuba, Canada and Buenos
Ayres, South America. Some of my best
pupils have been kept with me for FIVE years.
though four years and three years are more
frequently spent here. and some few stay
only one year
,. As 10 the QUALITY Of the education
giren By ne.-Ny boys have entered. direct
y from my training, Harvard College.
Mass; Yale College, Conn; BOwdoin Col
lege, Maine: Dartmouth, n. H.: the Uni
versity of Vermont, and Middlebury Col
lege. Vermont College Of Physicians and
Surgeons. Medical Department of Columbia
College, of New York city; Trinity College.
Conn; Hobart College. Geneva, N. Y;
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y; Williams
College, Mass; Columbia College, New
York city; Bethlehem College. Penn nnox
College. Illinois; Racine College. Wiscon-
sin; Washington University st. Louis, Mo-;
Rutgers College, New jersey; Princeton
College, New Jersey; the University of
Georgia; and especially West Point Mill
tsry Academy; as we'll as the Polytechnic
School. of Troy, N. Y; also St. Stephens
College. Anandale-
l have nsrer once offered a candidate to
any college or university who was rejected.
4. As TO military drlH-For the past
twelve years my boys have formed bettal-
ion, and have every Summer sustained the
regular military drill in the United States
infantry tactics, with bay0net exercise. Pub
lie exercises in military drill. dress parade
and bayonet exercises have been held on the
City Square, OF Burlington. annually in
June, and several years also at Piattsburgh,
n. Y, (Which is a military post). They
have invariably elected high praise from
United States Military Generals when pre-
sent, and BY none were more hittering
paid to them than by Gen.
Sheridan, at whose reception. by the city
OF Burlington. they assisted. when he was
here in 1868. The military drill is still sus-
tanned and to the same tor higher) degree of
{ fhciency.
5. As to Christian chGracter.-One hun
dred and twenty-seven of my pupils have
made a profession of Christianity, while
under my training, and they have uniformly
proved faithful in Christian integrity of
character in after years.
6. Besides those who have entered college,
fully one-half have entered stores, insurance
Offices. medical schools, theological schools.
law schools, and postoffices. Several have
become United States military officers in
the Regular Army. having graduated at
West Point; some became underteachers
in schools, or returned to their farms. or en-
tered some of the higher walks of lite. Nino
Of the pupils became uudertsGchers in the
Institute itself. during the sixteen years vi
l;s existence, and have always proved most
fhcient. Our current school year i. sue
cessful as usual. and our next reopens on
August 30.
This school has never asked a dollar oi
its friends. TO aid in its support from the
day of Its opening, in 1860; but on the con-
trary has helped others largely.
All of which IS respectfully submitted.
THEo. A. HoPKIss.
Principal OF Vt. Episcopal Institute. "