ham Eustis, Mark Farley, William Freeman, George Washington Frye, EbenGuild, ezer Greenough, Benjamin Charles Chauncy Haven, Jofeph Head, Jacob Hewins, Jofeph Hovey, Leonard Kimball, John Law, Samuel Livermore, John Loud, John Merrill, Benjamin Merrill, Charles Apthorp Morton, Seth Newcomb, Benjamin Ropes Nichols, Andrews Norton, Samuel Orne, Jofeph Otis Ofgood, Phineas Page, Wyman Richardson, Samuel Ripley, William Scollay, Samuel Sewall, William Simmons, Jofeph Emerson Smith, Jofeph Sprague, John Starr, John Stickney, Jeremiah Stimpfon, Bezaleel Taft, David Tappan, Samuel Cooper Thacher, Samuel Ruffell Trevett, Afhur Ware, Owen Warland, Mofes Webster, Jonathan Wild.

MASTERS OF ARTS.

In Course.-John Stevens Abbot, Jofiah Adams, Wilkes Allen, William Bartlett, William Chandler, Samuel Mather Crocker, Jacob Abbot Cummings, Edward Cutts, Thomas Dawes, John Dix, John Forrester, Abel Fox, Timothy Fuller, John Gorham, Robert Hallowell, Moody Kent, Luther Lawrence, Henry Newman, Charles Chauncy Parfons, Benjamin Pierce, Elias Phinney, William Bant Sullivan, George Sullivan, Enoch Sawyer Tappan, William Starkey Titcomb, Nathaniel Williams. Out of Courfe.-Mofes Little, A.B. 1787. William Biglow, A. B. 1794. William Ballard and Rufus Wyman, A. B. 1799. Horatio Bean and Timothy Boutell, A. B. 1800.

Mafters of Arts of Dartmouth College ad-
mitted ad eundem.

Samuel Ayer Bradley, Daniel Webster.
Bachelors of Phyfic.

On the 15th Aug. was attended the first Commencement of the University of Vermont in Burlington, when were had the following performances.

FORENOON EXERCISES.

1. Declamation in Greek, by John H. Chaplin.

2. English Oration on Agriculture, bg Afabel Langworthy.

3. Dialogue on the Languages, by Henry Bofwick, Platt Newcomb, and Arcb'd Hyde.

4. Declamation on the word "Why," this by Satterlee Clarke.

5. Forenfic Difputation on queftion-Whether party spirit be beneficial to a nation? by Ezra C. Gross,

and Gardner Child.

6. Declamation, by Lewis Johnson. 7. Dialogue, by Caffius F. Pomeroy, and James L. Sawyer.

8. English Oration on Aftronomy, by Warren Loomis.

9. Dialogue, by E. C. Gross, J. Strong, and G. Child.

10. Declamation, by C. F. Pomeroy. 11. English Oration on the origin of party, by S. Clarke.

this

12. Declamation, by J. L. Sawyer. 13. Forensic Difputation on queftion-Whether an extenfive territory be beneficial to a republican gov ernment by J. H. Chaplin and J. Strong.

14. English Oration on the progress of improvement, by Oliver Hubbel.

AFTERNOON.

1. The falutatory Oration, by Charles Adams.

2. A forenfic Difputation on this queftion-Whether practifing phyficians are advantageous to mankind? by Wheeler Barns and Jairus Kennan.

3. Law-Cafe, by L. Johnson, H.

Rufus Wyman, Abel Fox, John Gor- Boftwick, and S. Clarke. ham.

Honorary Doctorates conferred.
The degree of S.T. D. was conferred on

Rev. Eli Forbes, of Gloucefter, and
Rev. John N. Abeel, of New-York;
the degree of M. D. on Joshua Fisher,
V. Prefident of the Massachusetts Med-
ical Society; and the degree of L. L. D.
en Theophilus Parfons, Efq.

4. Difpute on this queftion-Whether capital punishments in civil governments be the best preventatives of crimes? by 0. Hubbel and A. Langworthy.

5. English Oration on Education, by W. Barns.

6. English Oration on the evils of party fpirit, by C. Adams.

7. English Oration on Happiness, by Juflus P. Wheeler.

8. Valedictory Oration,by J. Kennan,

MUNROE & FRANCIS, No. 7, COURT-STREET BOSTON,

MONTHLY

ANTHOLOGY.

SEPTEMBER, 1804.

FOR THE ANTHOLOGY.

THE STUDENT OF NATURAL
PHILOSOPHY.....No. I.

Mr. Editor,

HAVING

nence in the knowledge of those general laws, by which the Creator governs the natural world. "It is fuppofed, that the fall of an Bofton, Sept. 14, 1804. apple to the ground directed Newton to the investigation and discovery of the law of gravitation; and that the found of a fmith's hammer gave to Pythagoras the firft hint of his theory of mufick."

long had a defire to gain some small acquaintance with natural philofophy, and having hitherto enjoyed few advantages for this purpose, I refolve to devote one evening of every week, ordinarily, through the enfuing feafon, to this pleafing and useful study. It is my with to use your publication as the depofitory of fuch reflexions and experiments, as I may occafionally make. They will be extremely fimple, and perhaps hardly worth your notice. If however they fhall not be abfolutely defpicable, I will thank you to infert them, as they will ferve as a fort of journal of my progrefs, and may ftimulate me to perfevere in my refolution. Poffibly alfo a record of this kind may excite a philofophical tafte in fome young perfons, among your readers, who, from this circumftance, may hereafter rife to a refpectable emi

If you fhall look for much order in my ftudies, you will be disappointed. I have many avocations, few books and fewer inftruments, am fometimes ruled rather by caprice than system, and often overcome by laffitude and indolence. Here are fufficient reafons, why I should not be very methodical in my new purfuit. I will however engage, life and health being prolonged, to make you a weekly report of fome fort or other; and if cares or pleasures fhould forbid me to ftudy, and thus prevent me from furnishing you with an account of my own obfervations, I will at leaft fend you the obfervations of others. Interspersed in the pages of of old newspapers I frequently find recorded philo