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NHG-P.765.041
26 Jul 1765:12,13 (459)
Boston, July 18. Yesterday, being the anniversary
commencement at Cambridge, the following young gentlemen
were admitted to their respective degrees, viz.
Bachelors of Arts. . . [28 names]
Masters of Arts . [26 names]
The solemnity was opened as usual, by the Reverend the
President, with prayer. After which an handsome salutory
oration, delivered in an easy agreeable manner, introduced
the syllogistic disputation in Latin; these being ended, an
animated English oration, pronounced with great elegance and
propriety, concluded the exercises of the morning.
In the after part of the day, the Master Class began their
Latin disputations on several curious and controverted
subjects: To these succeeded a familiar, English dialogue,
spiritedly performed between two of the commencing masters.
The several degrees being then conferred, the Reverend
President made a second prayer adapted to the occasion.
After this, the audience were entertained with a pathetic
and truly classical valedictory oration: and the whole was
concluded by a sacred anthem, sung with acceptable harmony,
by a number of resident scholars.
The prevalence of the small-pox preventing the celebration
of this anniversary the last year and the inviting serenity
of the day drew together the most brilliant & crouded
assembly known on the like occasion since the foundation of
the College; which was the more happy, as the elegance and
decorum with which every thing was conducted, afforded
universal satisfaction.
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