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231 were delivered in the College and Academy Hall on Tuesday the Twenty Second Instant by several of the Students greatly to the Satisfaction of a numerous and Polite Audience, viz : MORAL 1. On the Supreme Good, by JOHN HALL 2. On Temperance, by JAMES LATTA MISCELLANEOUS and POLITICAL 3. On the Uses and Pleasures of Imagination, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON 4. On the Distribution of Power and different Forms of Government, by WILLIAM MASTERS 5. On the Necessity of human Force to the Support of human Government, by ISRAEL MARTIN 6. On the Question " Whether a State of Nature (so-called) be a State of War f " By three Speakers in the Forensic Manner, viz: SAMUEL MAGAW, HUGH WILLIAMSON and JACOB DUCHE. The fifth and sixth subjects were clearly Political, and bore on questions which were then uppermost in the minds of the community, and in which the Provost's interest and activities were second to none of his fellow citizens. The Trustees had at their meeting of 30 June, 1755 author- ized an expenditure of ^443. " concerning the Alterations neces- sary to be made in the Hall," which embraced a Gallery along three sides of the Hall finished like those of Mr. Ten- nent's Building, 2 the Fronts painted, and under side of the Joice plaister'd without any Pews made * * * a Platform for accommodating the Trustees, the Masters, Candidates for Degrees, and Strangers of Distinc- tion on publick occasions, and other items of lesser dignity ; thus preparing fitting accom- modations for pupils, masters, and visitors on all special occa- sions, so that this commodious building so happily secured in the outset of the enterprise was gradually being made fit for all its employments both regular and occasional. 2 The Second Presbyterian Church.