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Stephen Watts, who became Tutor in the College in the follow- ing August. John Beard, Nathaniel Chapman, William Edmis- ton, and William Paca, were the only members of the class of 1759 who proceeded to their degree of M. A. Henry Marchant, formerly a Student of this Institution having pro- nounced an elegant spirited Oration upon the Study of the Law, was admitted to a Master's Degree ; also the Rev'd Mr Morgan Edwards, the Rev'd Mr Joseph Mather, the Rev'd Mr John Simonton, and Mr Isaac Smith of Nassau College, now Student of Physic, to the honorary Degree of Master of Arts. And Mr Thomas Pollock [who had become a Tutor in November, 1761] to the Honorary Degree of Bachelor of Arts. It was a satisfactory minute that recorded : Everything was conducted with the utmost Decency and Order. The Candidates acquitted themselves in every part of their Exercises to the Satisfaction of all present, and have derived considerable Honor to them- selves and to the Institution. A broadside programme of these interesting exercises in Latin is preserved among the Penn Papers in the archives of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, thanks to the cotemporary care of the Penn's Secretary and the Trustees' President, the ever watchful and considerate Dr. Peters.