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A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. 1$ 
At the fame time we are acknowledging our obligations to 
our ALMA MATER, juftice demands the tribute of ded to 
her benefactors. | 
Foremoft among thefe, ftands the reverend Harvard ; 
verend by his profeílion, but much more fo by real worth, sa 
true dignity ef character. By his generous bequeft, and the fpi- 
= it SA the government was enabled to eftablith the col- 
': which, by reafon of the low ftate of the finances of the 
perte could not have been eftablifhed without fuch affiftance : 
. fo that he may juftly be confidered as the father and founder of 
the UNIVERSITY ; and in that character his memory fhould be 
tranímitted to pofterity. 
In the fame catalogue alfo, the names. of Stoughton, Hollis, 
Heiites Hetrick. each nsu and HERAS whofe vital part is dif- 
abe: ts eartl ge, NE CERIS al in 
fendi and encouragers sof TIDA are at ius seconded Y in the 
archives of the univerfity ; and therefore need not here be fpeci- 
fically enumerated. | 
Ye difembodied fpirits, now “ joined to the great majority," 
if ye are confcious of what is tranfacting in this place, and will - 
deign to regard it, permitus to exprefs our gratitude to you, ari- 
fing from a fenfe of the benefits already derived, and which are 
deriving, to individuals and he pein from your inftitutions and | 
benefactions. | 
If divinity and ditis if the knowledge of the Hebrew 
fcriptures, and of the orientaland other languages—if mathema- 
— tics, and natural, and experimental philofophy—if the medical 
art, the belles lettres, and literature in general—are beneficial to — 
mankind, ye have not lived in vain ; fince, to promote the know- 
