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EG.771.044
3-10 Sep 1771:271 (4/163)
Portsmouth, September 6. On Wednesday the 28th of August,
was held the first commencement at Dartmouth College, in
this province, which was attended by his Excellency Governor
Wentworth, with many of his Majesty's Council, a numerous
and respectable body of the clergy, and other gentlemen and
a concourse of people beyond all expectations.
. . . [10 lines follow 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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