Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-09-01
COMMENCEMENT
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.


gree Of Bachelor of Arts.
I. A Salutary Grafton in Latin-by
Elias Haskell Derby, Boston.
9. A conference. "The military
character Of Napoleon, Washington.
Frederick the Great, and Charles XII"
by Duncan Bradford, Boston /; Jo-
seph Osgood, Salem; William Edward
Payne, Boston; and William Wilson
Wheelwright, Boston.
5. AColloquial Discussion. "The
Novels of Fielding, Richardson, and the
author Of Wavcrly"--by William Barn
well, Beaufort, S. c.; Henry Perkins,
Newburyport aud Samuel Parker,
Boston.
4. A Dialogue in Latin. Detribu-
norum plebis potestate"-by Stephen
Elliott, Beaufort, S. c. and Charles
Gideon Putnam, Salem.
5. A Disposition. "The history Of
Astronomy"-.by> Benjamin Franklin
Fisk, WaItham.
6. A Dialogue in English. Mod
ern inventions and discoveries"-by
John Cochran Park, Boston, and Angus
tus Torrey, Salem.
7. A Conference. 4" The ages of
Augustus, Lorenzo de Mcdici, Louis XIV
and Queen Anne"-by Zephaniah Ames
Bates, Bridgewater; Benjamin Gutter,
West Cambridge Nathaniel Silsbee.
Salem; and Samuel Williams, Boston.
8. A Philosophical Disputation. The
grounds for thinking the NAL Aria will
eventually depopulate Rome''-by Will
liam Horton, Newburyport, and Arte-
mas Bowers Mussey, Lexington.
9. A Literary Discussion. "The
effects on American Literature OLA com.
muniiy Of language with England"-by
Edmund Lewis LIE Breton, Newbury-
port, and William Gordon Stearns, Cam
bridge.
10. A Dissertation. "rhe charac-
ter Of Socrates'-by Lucius Virgil Hub
bard, Ch4s;er, VI.
II. Conference. 1.-THE Religious
Institutions of Egypt, Greece and Rome"
by Edward Blake, Boston Edward
Pickering, Salem: David Roberts Sa-
lem.
IL. A Coloqual Discussion. =" The
comparative importance OF the expedi-
tons to ascertain the Northwest passage
and the Source of the Niger by Phln-
ehas Miller Crane, Canton, and Asa
Farnsworth Lawrence, Groton.
t3. A Literary lnquiry. "The In.
fluence cfJohnson as critic, in his own
time, and at the present day''-by Jo-
seph Lewis Stackpole, Boston.
II. A Forensic Disputation. Do
savage nations possess full right to the
soil ply George Washington Bnruap,
Merrmack, N. II. and WIN. Augustus
Whitwell, Boston.
rs. a DeIiberative Discussion. "The
comparative advantages of Western AZ
RIGA and Hayti for coIonizing free
blacks"-by David Hatch Barlow, Wind
sor, Vermont, and George Whitney,
Quincy.
l6. An Grafton in English. "Early
Prejudices'-by William Newell, Bos-
Ton.
II. Dissertation. "Long Life"--
by Christopher Tappan Thayer, Lancas-
ter.
IS. An Grafton in English. " The
Advancement of the Age"-by Edward
Bliss Emerson, Boston.
Exercises for the Degree Of Master Of Arts.
I. An Grafton in English. "The
Progress of Human Nature''---by Mr..
Charles Wentworth Upham,C Cambridge.
Q, A Valadictory Grafton in Latin,
by Mr. Josiah Quincy, Jr. Boston.
In addition to the above, the follow
ing gentleman received the degree Of
Bachelor of Arts -
Francis Amory, James Winthrop An
drews, John Francis Bingham, Charles
Henry Carter, Samuel Adams Cooper,
John Thomas Philip Dumont, Alexander
Clark Dunbar, Joseph Williams FaLer,
Richard Fuller, Lewis Glover, John
Marsh Gourgas, John Henry Gray,John
Greenough, Alfred Greenwood, William
Pi,kin Huntington, Thomas Lownles,
George Lunt, William Perkins Matchett,
Samuel Parker. William PRATT, Benja-
mir james Prescott, Samuel Cordes,
Prioleau, Daniel Clark Relf, George
Saunders, Calvin Stephen Smith, Caleb
Morton Stimson, Charles Church Chand-
Ter Tucker. Henry Samuel Todor, Ste
pheu PaIfrey Webb, George Wheat
land.
The honorary degree of Doctor Of
Laws was conferred on the Hon. Josiah
Quincy, Vim. Writ, and DAME Webster
and the degree of DR.. in Divinity on
the Rev. Bezaleel Howard, OF Spring