. Thetford academy, Thetford, Vermont. Seventy-fifth anniversary and reunion. Thursday, June 28, 1894. ctical surveying. Mr. Charles Caverno, a graduate of Dartmouth College, wasthe associate principal one year from September, 1854. Caverno has been successively teacher, lawyer, farmer, andpreacher, and after thirty years of faithful service in it, stillexercises the last vocation at Boulder, Col. He received thedegree of doctor of laws from the University of Colorado in1871. His daughter. Miss Julia Caverno, is now an assistantprofessor of Greek at Smith College. The Misses Ellen R. P
. Thetford academy, Thetford, Vermont. Seventy-fifth anniversary and reunion. Thursday, June 28, 1894. ctical surveying. Mr. Charles Caverno, a graduate of Dartmouth College, wasthe associate principal one year from September, 1854. Caverno has been successively teacher, lawyer, farmer, andpreacher, and after thirty years of faithful service in it, stillexercises the last vocation at Boulder, Col. He received thedegree of doctor of laws from the University of Colorado in1871. His daughter. Miss Julia Caverno, is now an assistantprofessor of Greek at Smith College. The Misses Ellen R. Putnam and Abbie H. Smith wereassistants in 1854; the latter, of Waitsfield, Vt., remained tillthe end of the summer term of 1855 and became Mrs. Cavernoin 1859. Also in 1854 Mr. E. K. Prouty taught vocal music;Nathaniel Burnham, surveying; and George A. Bucklin, pen-manship. The Rev. Edwin Hyde Alden, while preparing forcollege, taught writing in 1855. He graduated at Dartmouth in1859, and in 1890 resided at Lee Heights, South Dakota. This completes the list of Mr. Orcutts forty-eight MISS ELIZA P. HOOD. 41 They all exerted themselves to sustain the character and popu-larity of the institution. It certainly speaks well for the wisdomof the master that so many worked together harmoniously underhis direction. The reputation of the Academy can be best illustrated by theanalysis of the school as it appears in the catalogue of 1854, thewhole number of different students being an even four these Vermont furnished one hundred and seventy-five ;Massachusetts, one hundred ; New Hampshire, seventy-four;New York, fifteen ; Connecticut, eleven ; Rhode Island, seven;Maine, five; Texas, four; Canada, three; Indiana, Maryland,District of Columbia, Nova Scotia, France, and Syria, oneeach. Such wide-spread popularity and influence are difficultto explain. The time was indeed favorable to the success ofsuch an enterprise. The country towns were full of youngpersons to be
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