1790] ^^^. WILLIAM SMITH, D. D. 317 



SO easy to find the grand qualities which were associated with them, and 

 which in any fair estimate of his character should make us forget them." 



It gave Dr. Smith no pleasure to observe, nor does it give me 

 any to record, that the union of the two institutions produced 

 under Dr. Smith's successor no good effect. The University lan- 

 guished. Its graduates in different years are numbered thus: 



In 1794 •••5 



" 1797 3 



" 1801 5 



" 1802 5 



In 1803 6 



*' 1826 8 



" 1830 7 



In 1830, therefore, the University had one single graduate more 

 than the old College under Dr. Smith had at its first Commence- 

 ment in 1757; while in 1794, 1797, 1800, 1802 and 1803 it never 

 had as many; and in 1797, and at a date when Philadelphia was 

 the national metropolis, but half as many. And what sort of men 

 sent it forth at its first Commencement in 1757? Here are their 

 names: 



Jacob Duche, Samuel Magaw, 



Francis Hopkinson, John Morgan, M. D., 



James Latta, Hugh Williamson, 



Paul Jackson. 



Of these seven graduates there was not a single one who did 

 not become eminent either in the State, in the Church, in science, 

 or in letters. 



The Provost Stille rightly says in the paragraphs above quoted 

 the University was suffering from the loss of Dr. Smith's services 

 to it up to the time at which he himself was writing; that is to say 

 up to the year 1875 — yet it always had for Provosts men of ability. 

 Dr. Ewing himself was this. Dr. John McDowell was the same. 

 In Dr. Frederick Beasly, the institution had an acute thinker and 

 a finished scholar and a writer much above the common. In 

 Bishop DeLancey one of the most able, elegant, dignified, thought- 

 ful and accomplished gentlemen that our country, and I may say 

 that any country, ever has produced. And the praises of the re- 

 spected Ludlow are yet in the mouths of many. The rest of the 

 Faculty has been worthy of their Provosts; an assertion which is 

 proved enough to all when I say that among this rest have been 



