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Day and the Day following." No reference to this finds place in the Trustees' proceedings, and it was probably deemed better to await conferring the first degrees of the College, until after the aspirants had some training in the Scheme of liberal Education which the Provost had about this time submitted for the appro- bation of the Board. At their meeting of 27 December, 1756, it was " ordered that an exact Catalogue of the Youth at present in each of the Schools be prepared by the Clerk and presented to the Trustees at the next meeting," which was submitted and we find it " inserted in the Minute Book by order of the Trus- tees " at the meeting of 5 March, 1757. Those who had now earned their Degrees are not included. The Philosophy school had twelve pupils, the Latin, sixty, the Mathematical twenty- two and the English thirty-one. This first roll of students is worthy of recording here as we find the names entered in due order on the minute book. The following List of the Youth belonging to the College and Acad- emy of Philadelphia is inserted in the Minute Book by Order of the Trustees. PHILOSOPHY SCHOOL. SENIOR CLASS. JUNIOR CLASS. John Allen Samuel Keene Andrew Allen John Chew James Allen Philemon Dickinson Joseph Reade Alexander Lawson John Morris William Paid [Paca ?] Samuel Powell Abraham Walton LATIN SCHOOL. Benjamin Baynton James Murray Thomas Bond Samuel Morris John Cadwalader William Greenway Lambert Cadwalader Tench Tilghman Thomas Mifflin Joel Evans Lindsay Coates Robeson Yorke John Luke