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BNL.728.007
15-22 Feb 1728:21 (60)
Cambridge (Mass.), Tuesday, Feb. 13. This day at 10 A.M.
The honourable & reverend overseers of the College met with
the Corporation in the College Hall, to inaugurate Mr. Isaac
Greenwood, into the office of professor of the mathematicks,
and natural and experimental philosophy, lately founded by
that great and living benefactor to this Society, Mr. Thomas
Hollis of London merchant. The Rev. President being
detain'd by illness, Mr. Flint the senior fellow perform'd
the part of moderator, began with prayer, and then
pronounc'd a Latin oration proper to the occasion: Mr.
Divinity Professor Wigglesworth read the founders
instructions. Mr. Greenwood took the oaths and made the
declarations required in them: and then pronounc'd a Latin
oration. The Rev. Mr. Appleton pray'd: and singing part of
the 40 Psalm concluded the solemnity. After which the
Overseers & Corporation repair'd to the library; till the
publick dinner in the hall was ready, where all the
gentlemen spectators of the solemnity were handsomely
entertained.
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