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In answer to these the Governor replied : Gentleman of the Faculty : I thank you for this Kind Address of your Body, and for the Marks of Regard shewn to me by the Youth educated under your Care. I should think myself greatly wanting in the Duties of my Station, if I did not countenance every Institution for the Advancement of useful Knowledge : and I am so sensible of the particular good Tendency of this Seminary, whereof I became an early Promoter, that I shall always be happy in affording it every reasonable Degree of Encouragement in my Power. I am glad to find it growing in Reputation, by means of the Youths raised in it, and doubt not but it will continue to do so, finder the Direction of Gentlemen, who have given unquestionable Proofs of their Capacity, and, on that Account, have received the highest honors from some of the most learned Societies in Great Britain. After these grateful exercises, instead of proceeding to a lunch and social intercourse, the Trustees returned to the Exper- iment or Apparatus Room, and resuming their business, took kindly action towards the aid of the widow of Professor Grew. A scheme was now on foot to make all the exhibitions and services in the Hall more attractive by securing an organ for their accompaniment. The Pennsylvania Gazette of 27 Decem- ber, 1757, tells us : By permission and particular desire towards the raising a Fund for purchasing an organ to the College Hall in this city and instructing the charity children in Psalmody, at the Theatre, in Society Hill, this evening will be presented, the tragical and interesting History- of George Bamwell. N. B. As this Benefit is wholly intended for improving our Youth in the divine art of PSALMODY and CHURCH Music, in order to render the Enter- tainment of the Town more compleat at Commencements and other publie occasions in our College * * * To begin exactly at 6 o'clock. We see here the hand of young Francis Hopkinson, whose musical accomplishments were being turned to pleasant use not only on behalf of his Alma Mater, but to Christ Church as well, where the Vestry a few years later voted him their thanks for his "great and constant pains in teaching and instructing the children." The organ was procured and in place for the com- mencement of 1760, when The Orations, Disputations, and other Academical Exercises were