The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-09-03
From the Boston Daily Advertiser.
COMMENCEMENT AT HARVARD
IJNIVER STTV

ms interesting exhibition was attended as
usual ON Wednesday last, by large concourse
OF ladies and gentlemen. Among the auditors
were many ladies' and gentlemen from other
states as well as from this vicinity. The Gov.
erhor and Lieutenant Governor of the Com.
monwealth, and members of the Council were
escorted from town to Cambridge, at an early
i.our' oy Boston company of Light Dragons
Among the gentlemen invited to attend the
performances, and the dinner in the hall. were
the President of the United States, Mr.. Steven.
son, Speaker of the House of Representatives
Gov. Coles of Illinois, Mr. Tucker, Prncipal Of
the University of Virginia, Professor McVickar
OF Columbia College, Senior Viaauree of Peru.
Professor De la Luz of st. Carlos College. Ha.
vana, and many others. The following is the
order of performances
Exercises Of Candidates for the Degree of
Bachelor Of .Arts.
L. Salutatory Grafton in Latin. George
Chapman, Boston.
2 A Conference. "The stability of the
General Government of the United States, as
affected by national literature, common dam
gers, facility of mutual intercourse. and a qen
eral diffusion of knowledge Henry Ingeisoll
Bowditch, Boston; William Gray SWEET, Bos-
ton John Appleton SWEET, Dorchester John
Parker Tarhell, Cambridge
g. A Coloqulal Discussion. C The Enthusi-
asst and the Matter-of-Fact Man." Joseph
Warren Cross, East Bridgewater; Patrick
Grant, Boston.
4. An Essay Literary Recreation" 10.
seph Hale, Ipswich.
5. Conference. "The obligations of
country to her Warriors, her Statesmen, her
Artists, and her Authors" Josiah Durham
Hedge, Cambridge; John Greene Norwood,
Boston; James Jackson, Boston ); John Sincle-
tOuIQ
g. A Philosophical Discussion. "Tbe moral
tendency of the Natural Sciences" Francis
Caleb Loring, Boston; Jonathan Loring Wo-
art, Newburyport.
4 Dissertation. "The Importance of n
popular history, in which the actions of men
shall be represented according to the principles
OF the Christian Religion Henry Swasey
Mexican, Cambridge.
s. A Conference. "Public amusements.
splendid religious ceremonies, warlke prepare
tlons and display, and rigid police, as means
OF despotic power" Charles Francis Barnard,
Boston; Jacob Caldwell, Lunenburg Freder-
lex Dabney, Fayal, Azores; Edward Solely, New
9. A Forensic Disputation. "Whether the
world be advancing in moral improvement
Arthur Howson Hope Bernard, Fredericksburg.
Va; Oliver Prescott, Westford.
TO- Poem. James Cook Richmond, Provi-
dence, R..
il. A Literary Discussion. "The merits
of the histories of Hume and Lingard" Charles
Babbidge, Salem; Edward Sprague Rand,
Newburyport.
II. Dissertation. "The peculiar facilities
in modern times for effecting great purposes in
Government and in Religion" Horatio Dawes
Appleton, Baltimore, (Md)
ID. An Grafton in English. "Public Sta.
ton" Robert Charles Winthrop, Boston.
IA. Deliberative Discussion. Liberal
principles, as affecting the strength of the Gov
ernment." George Nichols, Salem; Samuel
Rogers, Boston.
10. An Grafton in English "Public Onin-
ion." Charles Chauncey Emerson, Boston
16. An Grafton in English. Georee Still
man Hilliard, Boston.
Exercises Of Candidates for tie degree of Mas
ter Of Arts
]. An Grafton in English. "The shirt
which should accompany our Republican In.
situations Mr.. Jonathan Chapman.
2. A Valedlctory Grafton in Latin. Mr.. Ja-
son Whitman
The parts numbered a, 10, and 10, and the
part OF Bernard IN No. 8, were omitted The
performances uniformly bore the marks of rood
taste and mature judgment, and several of them
indicated talents of very high order They
engaged the attention and interested the feel
lngs OF the audience in an unusual degree.
several OF the young gentlemen, in very feel.
ing and appropriate manner, paid a tribute of
their respect and gratitude to the late President
ofthe University.
The following young gentlemen received the
degree OF Bachelor of Arts:
Horatlo Dawes Appleton, Charles Babbidge,
Charles Francis Barnard, Arthur Howson Hooe
Bernard, Henry Ingersoll Bowdtch, Jacob
Caldwell, George Chapman, Charles Parker
Coffin, Joseph Warren Cross, Frederick Dab
ney, Joseph Willard Dana, Charles Chauncey
Emerson, Thos Bayley Fox, John Jacob Gil
christ, Robert Gilmor, Patrick Grant, John
Singleton Copley Greene, Joseph Hale, Ed
ward Holyoke Hedge, Josiah Durham Hedge,
George Stitlman Hilliard, Jacob Jackson, Fran.
els Caleb Loring, Henry Swasey Mexican,
Ephraim Flint Miller, Charles Mnot, Charles
Tracy Murdoch, George Nichols, John Greene
Norwood, William Phillips, Oliver Prescott,
Charles Proctor, Edward Sprague Rand, Jacob
Cook Richmond, Samuel Rogers, John Lewis
Russell, Thomas Philander Ryder, Jonathan
Saunderson, William Sawyer, Horatio Ship
ley, Ludovius Smith, Edward Soley, William
Gray SWEET, John Appleton SWEET, John Par.
ker Tarbell, Charles Joseph Taylor, Norton
Thayer, Thomas Kemble Thomas, William
Nelson Wexford, Benjamin Quick Whitney
Robert Charles Winthrop Jonathan Loring
Woart
The following gentlemen were admitted to
the degree of Master of Arts, in course
Horatio Alger, Phineas Allen, George Part.
ridge Bradford Hilary Breton Cenas, Jonathan
Chapman, Jonathan Cole, Augustus Sidney
Doane, Joshua Francis Fisher, Augustus Add.
son Gould, Frederick Henry HEDGE. Jobn
Clarke Howard, John Barnard SWEET Jackson
Giles Henry Lodge, Nathaniel James Lord
Hiram Manley, Allyne Otis, William Prentiss'
Edward G. Prescott. Allen Putnam, John Han.
cock Richardson Thomas Sherwin, John Good
hue Treadwell, Jason Whitman, George Ed
ward Winthrop.
Out Of eoursc-Jonathan D. Weston, 1909
Louis Glover, 1924.