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Rh Sample, and James Tilghman, twelve in all. Montgomery and Read accepted tutorships in the College. The Master's Degree was conferred on Ogden and Waddell of the class of 1761 ; and the honorary Master's Degree on "Joseph Reed, Esq., of Trenton, and Mr. James Wilson, one of the Tutors in this College, in regard to their particular Learning and merit." It was at a previous meeting that Wilson had petitioned for this honor, and the "Trustees had agreed to grant him the same in consideration of his Merit and his having had a regular Educa- tion in the universities of Scotland." As Professor of English Literature in 1773, and the first Professor of Law in 1790, and thus establishing for the University another claim for its larger title, as Dr. Morgan had in 1768 in opening the Medical School first developed the University idea, we shall learn more in the progress of our narrative of this eminent jurist and statesman. 10 Of Joseph Reed, as President Reed, we shall with interest learn more of the man upon whom, in 1779, seemed to alight the onus of breaking the College charter of 1775; yet when we reach that period ample reason will be found to have at the time appeared to many that some change was needed in its conduct, and Reed from the executive chair was but the exponent of a class rather than a party in having to deal with a matter, the only cure for which they thought to lie in the substitution of a new charter for the old. 10 See Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution by Mr. McMaster and Dr. Stone, Philadelphia, 1 888, p. 757 for a brief sketch of his life.