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CG-NL.771.056
13 Sep 1771:31 (8/409)
Boston, September 9. On Wednesday the 28th of August, was
held the first commencement at Dartmouth College, in the
province of New-Hampshire, which was attended by Governor
Wentworth, with many of the Council, a respectable body of
the clergy, and a concourse of other persons beyond all
expectations.
. . . [10 lines on attendees and ceremony]
The exercises consisted of an elegant English oration upon
the virtues, succeeded by an anthem; a philosophic oration
in latin; a syllogistic disputation and valedictory oration
in latin, followed by an anthem, composed and set to music
by the young gentlemen candidates for a degree.
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