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through Franklin's correspondence, but to which he 

 had no access. 12 



It may in all fairness therefore be claimed that the 

 Philosophical Society is derived from the ancient Junto, 

 although through a younger branch. If the history of 

 our Society is followed back from 1769, one of its lines 

 of parentage, that of the Philosophical Society, as is 

 well known, goes back to 1743 ; the other in my opinion 

 goes back through the American Society and the 

 younger Junto, begun in 1750, to the parent of that 

 Society, the older Junto, established in 1727. The nar- 

 rative given in the report of the committee of October 

 15, 1841, seems to me to be a clear and correct statement 

 of the facts and the first, second, third, fourth, and 

 sixth clauses of their conclusion to be fully justified. 

 The fifth conclusion, however, the inference from these 

 facts that 1743 should be considered as the earliest date 

 of origin of the Society, does not seem to me to be justi- 

 fiable. 13 If the "date of founding, " as it has been 

 formulated for the use of colleges by the Carnegie 

 Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching means 

 "the year in which the institution was established out 

 of which the present college or university (institution), 

 has developed," the Junto of 1750 certainly developed 

 out of the Junto of 1727, and the Society may claim its 

 descent through a younger line just as fairly as by 

 primogeniture, so that the date of origin of the Society 



12 Keport, pp. 141-2. 

 is Keport, pp. 53-96. 



