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NHG-P.771.045
6 Sep 1771:23 (777)
Portsmouth. On Wednesday 28th of August was held the first
commencement at Dartmouth College, in this Province, which
was attended by His Excellency Governor Wentworth, with many
members of his Majesty's Council, a numerous & respectable
body of the clergy, and other gentlemen, and a concourse of
people beyond all expectation. The following gentlemen,
Messirs John Wheelock and Samuel Gray, Independent Students,
and Messirs Levi Frisbe and Sylvanus Ripley, educated for
missionaries among the remote Indians, candidates for the
first degree, performed the appointed exercises of the day,
under the conduct of the Rev. President Wheelock, to the
entire approbation of the honorable trustees present, and
obtained the admiration and applause of a crouded audience.
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. The next
day was ordained Mr. David Avery, educated at that Seminary,
in order to his immediate departure, as missionary among the
Indians.
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