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488 This letter was presented at the Meeting of the Trustees on 23 July, Dr. Redman being present. And at a special meeting held on I August, there being fifteen Trustees present, and among them the two Doctors Bond, Dr. Redman, Dr. Shippen and Dr. Cadwalader, a letter from Dr. Rush was submitted offering himself as a candidate for " the Professorship of Chemistry (which Dr. Morgan hath some time supplied)," when "in consequence of the above application and in consideration of Dr. Rush's character as an able chemist, he was unanimously appointed Professor of Chemistry in this College." Thus was formed a connection with the institution which continued until Dr. Rush's death in 1813. Of his civil and public services our country's history makes true note; and these in a measure reflected with advantage upon the Faculty of which he was a distinguished member. In the course of our present narrative, we may have more to say of him, as in his professional and political life he became intimately associated with all the interests and concerns of the College. The average age of the four professors, Morgan, Shippen, Kuhn, and Rush was under thirty years; affording another instance in the history of the College that some of its best and firmest developments were the instrumentality of young men. Dr. Bond, the clinical Lecturer, as Dr. Carson humorously records, "only had arrived at that age when experience is supposed to bring the greatest wisdom: he was over fifty years." 2 ti

At the Commencement of 1769, on 30 June, eight students received their degrees of Bachelor of Medicine: James Armstrong, Josias Carvill Hall, John Hodge, John Houston, Thomas Pratt, Alexander Skinner, John Wynder, and Myndert Veeder. The Commencement of 5 June, 1770, exhibited but one of these honors, Thomas Parke. At the Commencement of 28 June, 1771, were conferred seven of these degrees, viz: Benjamin Alison (of the class of 1765), Jonathan Easton (1768), Frederick Kuhn, John Kuhn, Bodo Otto, Robert Pottenger, and William Smith. 3 But this occasion was chiefly notable for the conferring

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8 Who married in 1775 the granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Graeme.