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Boston, Massachusetts Newspaper

COLUMBIAN CENTINEL

Dated September 19, 1818

YALE UNIVERSITY - Commencement

    Sept. 9th. The weather was unfavorable, but the number of strangers
 present was unusually great. Of the literati, were the Presidents of Harvard, Union, Hamilton, Bowdoin, and
 Burlington Colleges.
 The exercises were, Orations, on "The proper culture of the imagination," - "The dignity and utility of the
 philosophy of the mind," - "On the colonization of the blacks in the United States," - "On the association of
 ideas," - "On the influence of poverty in the formation of literary characters," - and "On the value of
 enthusiasm." - Disputations, on the questions, "Have the British conquests in India been beneficial?" - "Ought
 the fine arts to be extensively cultivated in the United States?" - "On the lawfulness of war;" - and a Poem,
 "The Abbe de l'Epee, and his deaf and dumb pupil."
 Degrees - Of Bachelor of Arts, was conferred on Cyrus H. Beardsley, Charles Beauford, Samuel Borrowe,
 David Botsford, Eleazer Brainard, Joseph H. Breck, Oliver Bronson, Frank Bugbee, Anson Burgess, Orlando
 Canfield, Alfred Chester, Henry Clary, John C. Coit, H. Francis Cone, James I. Cordes, Warham Crooks,
 James Keith Duke, Caleb Day, Henry Dutton, Edward Gere, J. Morgan Gilbert, Roger Griswold, Samuel
 Griswold, Ralph Randolph Gurley, Richard Haughton, Reuben Hazen, H.W.L. Hubbel, James S. Huggins,
 Hector Humphreys, Samuel H. Huntington, Joseph Hurlbut, Thomas H. Johns, John N.S. Jones, Alfred Kellog,
 David Kimball, Pickett Laumer, Earl Loomis, Romeo Lowrey, William Mitchell, Sheldon Moore, Richard
 Morris, J. Worthington Newton, Richard T. Nott, Charles H. Olmstead, Isaac Orr, Thomas C. Perkins, Seneca
 Pratt, James Raymond, Robert Riddel, George S. Robbins, John W. Salter, Richard E. Seldon, Henry
 Sherwood, T. Leflingwell Shipman, Horace Smith, Levi Smith, George Spaulding, James Stuart, John S.
 Tallmadge, Henry B. Titus, Edward Turner, Henry Vaughan, Lewis Weld, Frederick Whittlesay, Governeur M.
 Wilkins, Spencer Wood - 66.
 Of Master of Arts on Norris Bull, Alfred S. Munson, Ezekiel Sanford, Jos. D. Wickham, Geo. Hinckley, John S.
 Lee, Hubbard Rockwell, Orin Fowler, Horace Hooker, Horace Geodrich, Aaron Arms, Charles H. Hammond,
 Hezekiah Hull, Levinus Munson, Roger C. Hatch, Henry E. Dwight, Samuel G. Chaffee, John M. Atwood,
 Josiah Hooker, and Elias Cornelius.
 Merit Bradford, Philip A. Cannon, John M'Curdy, Francis L. Hooker, William Orr, and Miron Winslow, Master
 of Arts from other Colleges, were admitted ad eundem
 The honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred on Mr. Edward Hitchcock, of Deerfield, Mass.
 The degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred on Julius S. Barnes, Zebulon P. Burnham, John A. Cornwell,
 Ashbel Dart, Wm. S. Goodhue, Jabez G. Hardyear, John P. Kimball, Jared Pardee, and Woodbridge Strong.
 The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on the Rev. Ralph Wardlaw, of Glasgow, and on the
 Rev. Joshua Bates, President of Middlebury College, Vermont. 
 The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on the Hon. John Trumbull, one of the Judges of the
 Superior Court of Connecticut.

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