Edward Shippen alone attended, but the minute of their pro- ceedings recites : The two Charity Schools were visited, the Boys and Girls examined as to their Reading, Writing and casting Accounts, and it appeared that they were carefully instructed. The copy Books of the Boys in the Latin School were likewise examined and it is recommended to Prof. Beveridge that the Boys attended their writing more diligently.
The second Commencement Day arrived, 7 June, 1759, and was duly advertised, " at which time the Company of all that please to attend will be very acceptable." T The Trustees met, and the three undergraduates who met with no Commencement in 1758, Andrew and James Allen and John Morris, reminded the Trustees that they had finished their Studies and had under- gone a public Examination last year, 2 and were favored with their Approbation, and therefore, with their leave, they proposed to offer them- selves for the Degree of Batchelor of Arts, and requested a Mandate to the Faculty to admit them, which was granted them; and then "the Vice Provost presented to the Trustees " the young men who had passed their Exami- nation in April, together with John Hall, as Candidates for the Degree of Batchelor of Arts, informing them, that they had finished their Studies, had undergone a public examination, and were well qualified ; whereupon the Trustees issued the written Mandate under their Hands and the privy seal of their College, directed to the Provost, Vice Provost and Professors requiring them to admit said Students to the Degree of Batchelor of Arts, and likewise they gave a like Mandate to admit the Reverend Mr Hector Alison, now on Duty as Chaplain in the Pennsylvania Regiment, and the Reverend Mr John Ewing, their present Lecturer in Natural Philosophy to the honorary Degree of Master of Arts . 1 Penna. Gazette, 7 June, 1759. a This may have been had on Monday, 14 August, 1758, notice for which was advertised in the Penna. Gazette, to August.
