| Citation |
NHG-P.771.018
12 Apr 1771:11,12,13 (756)
Boston, April 4. Yesterday His Excellency Thomas
Hutchinson, Esq; lately appointed Governor of this Province,
on an invitation from the Corporation of Harvard-College was
pleased to visit that ancient seat of learning.
. . . [16 lines describing his arrival]
The Chapel not being large enough to accommodate the
gentlemen who were present on this occasion, and the members
of the Society; His Excellency, with the
Lieutenant-Governor, the Overseers, Corporation, Officers of
the College and the other Gentlemen, went in procession,
from Harvard-Hall to the Meeting-House, preceded by the
Students of the college, graduates and undergraduates.
The General Court being then sitting in the College, a
Committee of the Corporation waited on the Honorable House
of Representatives to ask their attendance on the exercises
of the day.--which invitation they were pleased to accept.
The public exercises began with a handsome Gratulatory
Oration in Latin pronounced by Mr. Wetmark, one of the
Resident Graduates. To this his Excellency made an elegant
reply in the same language, testifying his affection to the
Seminary in which he had his education, and his regard to
the interests of literature.
Then followed an anthem, composed, set to music, and
performed by the young gentlemen of the College.
The words of the Anthem.
We have heard with our ears, O Lord, and our fathers have
told of thy might, Thy wonders which thou didst of old; how
thou didst drive out the heathen from among them!
For they got not their land by their own sword; but it was
thy right-hand, thine arms, and the light of thy
countenance! O praise the Lord forever and ever.
--How blessed are all they that fear the Lord and walk in
his ways, for thou shalt eat the labours of thine hands.--O
w[ ] is thee, and happy shalt thou be.
Lo! thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord.
For thus saith the Lord, from henceforth, behold all
nations shall call thee blessed; for thy rulers shall be of
thine own kindred; your nobles shall be of yourselves; and
thy GOVERNOR shall proceed from the midst of thee.
Awake! awake! Put on thy strength, O Zion,--break forth
into joy with Hallelujah! for the Lord hath redeemed his
people.
Blessing and glory, salvation and wisdom, thanksgiving and
honor and power and might, be unto the Lord God Almighty,
who sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and
ever: Amen.
Praise the Lord.
When the exercises were over, the procession returned to
the Hall, where a genteel entertainment was provided for his
Excellency, the Honorable and Rev. Overseers the Honorable
House of Representatives, & the other gentlemen. The whole
was conducted with the greatest decorum and elegance.
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