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Rh agreeably intermixed with sundry Anthems and Pieces of Psalmody, sung by the Charity Boys, attended with an organ, which the Liberality of the Town lately bestowed. At the close of the whole, the Audience was most delightfully entertained with two Anthems sung by several Ladies and Gentlemen, who have not been ashamed to employ their Leisure Hours in learning to celebrate their Master's Praises with Grace and Elegance. 5 And we have already noted how Hopkinson " conducted the organ with that bold masterly Hand for which he is celebrated."

The Commencement of 1760, on I May, we are told, "was held in the College of this city, before a vast Concourse of Peo- ple of all Ranks and Distinctions," and the Degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred upon Patrick Alison, Chaplain to Congress in 1776, Thomas Bond, jr., son of Dr. Bond, Lindsay Coates Robert Goldsborough, of Maryland, Whitmel Hill, of North Carolina, John Johnson, Thomas Mifflin, Governor of Pennsyl- vania from 1790 to 1799, and Robert Yorke; and the Degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon Duche, Hopkinson, Latta, Magaw, Morgan, and Williamson in course, and upon Josiah Martin, jr., formerly with those of the class of 1757, and who took the honorary degree of B. A. with them in that year, and Joseph Montgomery who earned his degree at Princeton in the class of 1755. The Trustees were of opinion that it might be of service to the Institution to confer Honorary Degrees on some of the Ministers and Gen- tlemen of this and the Neighboring Colonies who were of distinguished character, for their usefulness and Learning. And it appearing to them that the following Gentlemen were such, a Mandate issued under their Hands and the Lesser Seal, requiring the Faculty to admit them to the Honorary Degree of Master of Arts; viz. : the Reverend Mr Samuel Davis, 5 Pennsylvania Gazette, 15 May, 1760. The organ "was placed in the centre of the East Gallery facing the Pulpit," according to the Minutes, p. 117.