88 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE [l/^S 



3d. The Faculty of Professors, with the Rev. William Smith, D. D., 

 President of the Visitors and Governors, who acted, by appointment, as 

 Principal pro Tempore, at their head. 



4th. The corporation of Visitors and Governors, his Excellency 

 William Paca, Esq. ; Governor of the State, and one of the said 

 Visitors and Governors, at their head. 



When the procession arrived at the Church door, the scholars, stu- 

 dents and candidates for degrees filed off to the right and left, forming 

 a lane through which the Faculty and Corporation of Visitors and Gov- 

 ernors marched into the Church, followed by the candidates, and then 

 the students and scholars according to their classes and seniority. 



The company being seated, the Principal pro Tempore (Dr. Smith) 

 opened the business of the day with a solemn Prayer and Address to 

 the SUPREME BEING; and afterwards a short Latin oration to the 

 learned and collegiate part of the audience, as custom seems to require. 

 The candidates then proceeded with the public exercises as follows, viz. : 



1 . A Latin Salutatory Oration, by Mr. John Scott. 



2. An oration in French, by Mr. James Scott. 



'3. A Latin Syllogistic Dispute — "■Nam ^tennfas Pcenarum contra- 

 dvcit divinis Attributis l'' Respondent Mr. Charles Smith;* Oppo- 

 nents Messrs. William Barrol and William Bordley. 



4. An English Forensic Dispute, — " Whether the state of nature be 

 a state of war?" The speakers were • Messrs. John Scott, William 

 Barrol, William Bordley and James Scott. 



5. The Degrees Avere conferred by the Principal as follows: 



1^ Charles Smit;h, "| 

 j James Scott, j 



Messrs. I John Scott, > Bachelors of Arts. 



! William Barrol, ! 

 (^ William Bordley, j 

 Mr. Samuel Kerr, Honorary Bachelor of Arts. 

 Mr. Colin Ferguson, Master of Arts. 



Mr. Samuel Armor, Master of Arts of the College of Philadelphia, 

 admitted ad eundcin.'\ 



6. An English Valedictory Oration, which concluded with a striking 

 and prophetic copy of verses on the progress of the sciences and the 

 growing glory of America — By Mr. Charles Smith. 



* This Charles Smilh was the third son of Dr. Smith. He was born in Philadel- 

 phia, March 4th, 1765, and baptized in Christ Church in that city by the Rev. Mr. 

 Stur<,'eon on the 2lst of August of the same year, John Moore, Esq., and Charles 

 Smith, his uncles, being sponsors. He was President Judge of the Court of Common 

 Pleas of Franklin and Cumberland counties, and afterwards, when the District Court 

 of Lancaster was created, he became its first President Judge, and the author of a val- 

 ual)le annotated edition of the Laws of Pennsylvania. 



f The last two gentlemen were the senior or chief Professors in the Arts and Sciences, 

 and Mr. Kerr one of the Masters in the Grammar School. 



