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Dr. Christopher Wordsworth in his Social Life at the English Universities affords us more information as to the ages of the matriculants:

The ages of the early graduates at the Philadelphia College show that they entered college life at earlier years than Dr. Wordsworth quotes of the ages at matriculation, at the English Universities. Of the seventy graduates at the sixteen commencements, prior to the abrogation of the Charter in 1 779, whose ages are known to us, thirty-seven were not over nineteen years