REPORT. HEAD QUARTERS, VA. MILITARY INSTITUTE, Gen'l Wм. H. RICHARDSON, SIR, I have the honor to transmit herewith the report of the semi-annual examination of the cadets of this institution, accompanied by the list of cadets who have matriculated since the commencement of the institute in 1839. The studies of the cadets during the last half year have been very much interrupted by the prevalence of mumps. Some seventy cases have occurred amongst them; and although no one has been seriously ill from the disease, the necessity of guarding against cold has interfered greatly with the regular duties of the cadets. In this connection it is my duty to express my earnest conviction that many of the rooms in the barracks will be unfit for use another winter. Having, in obedience to the order of the board, used every available means to put them in a habitable condition, I should be derelict in duty did I not at once call the attention of the public authorities to their wretched condition. pu It gives me pleasure to report that our graduates are fully discharging the duties enjoined upon those who are required to teach, while many whose education here has qualified them for the duty, have entered the service of the state on its various works of internal improvement. Every state graduate except one, as far as is known, upon whom this duty now devolves, is actively engaged in teaching; and there are now some twenty or twenty-five applications from various quarters of the state for more teachers. With this gratifying manifestation of public approbation, it is with pain I report that Mr. P. A. Fitzhugh of the county of Middlesex, a state graduate of 1846, has not yet discharged the service as a teacher, which his letter of appointment imposed upon him, although opportunity has been afforded for this purpose. I have the honor to be, With great respect, Your ob't serv't, FRANCIS H. SMITH, General merit. Merit Roll of the Cadets of the Virginia Military Institute, as determined at the semi-annual Examination, January 1850. Ass't prof. mat. 1st lieut. 1178.5 2d captain. 97 296 194 290 300 1177 2d lieut. 95 297 193 292 287.5 1164.5 94.5 283 197 292 296 1162.5 90 Cumberland, 97 286 187 Joseph Mayo, 7 Charles Ruffin, 9 T. D. Taliaferro, 12 T. R. Thornton, 14 George Waddill, {18 C. B. Williams, 19 J. C. Grayson, 23 B. F. Hudgins, 31 J. H. McPherson, 32 W. R. Fleming, 33 T. E. Lewis, 34 J. F. Early, 35 H. Ker, Mathematics. TOTAL. * Composition. 95.5 50 300 645.5 300 644 Conduct. Westmoreland, 200 Amelia, 49-5 293.5 635.3 43 300 628.5 47.5 292.5 628 96.5 43 296 627.5 300 188 93 43 300 Campbell, 183.5 97.5 43 Page, King George, 46.5 295 REMARKS. 624 Corporal. 624 190.4 91 190.3 98.5 48 622.9 285.5 622.3 Campbell, 184.5 90.5 44.5 300 619.5 Culpeper, Alexandria, 187 88.5 43 190.5 Elizabeth City, 185.5 84.5 43 Fayette, Marshall, Spotsylvania, Powhatan, Albemarle, Page, 86 43 300 606 166.9 96 43 300 170 605.9 295 605 280 605 36 M. F. Tutwiler, 37 D. Tyler, 38 J. M. Lightner, 40 W. J. Preston, 42 W. F. Carter, 43 J. W Tayloe, 44 L. Nottingham, 45 R. A. Thompson, J. F. Mayse, M. P. Todd, Madison, Greenbrier, 167 91 43 166.7 86.5 43 300 189 83.5 43.5 278.5 594.5 166.5 89 43 167.1 83.5 43 166.8 91.5 47 Pr. William, 180 92.5 48 295.5 594 300 593.6 287.5 592.8 271 591.5 287 591 293.5 590.7 43 273 590 174 166.7 87 43 87.5 43 95 176 83.5 43 Richmond city, 179 286.5 589 46.5 259 588.6 Northampton, 166.7 83.5 43 Kanawha, Wythe, Middlesex, 292.5 585.7 167.2 92 43 266 568.2 |