Citation - Pennsylvania Evening Post: 1782.01.10

PEP.782.002
10 Jan 1782:31, 32 (8/802)
Boston, Dec. 27.  The Revd. Joseph Willard of Beverly,
having been elected president of the university at
Cambridge, was on Wednesday the 19th inst. inducted into
that office. . . [6 paragraphs on the ceremony]
After which a prayer was made by the Rev. Mr. Howard, and
the solemnity was closed with an anthem, well performed by
the young gentlemen of the university. . .