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" Nine bachelors commenced at Cambridge; they were young men of good hope, and performed their acts, so as gave good proof of their proficiency in the tongues and arts. "
Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts - Page 320
by Colonial Society of Massachusetts - 1917
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The Purposes of the American Colonial Colleges

Jerome Sanford Fink - Christian universities and colleges - 1957 - 466 pages
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Harvard Magazine, Volume 88

1985 - 814 pages
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The Writing of American History

Michael Kraus, Davis D. Joyce - History - 1990 - 466 pages
...many settlers. In the same year, 1642, he noted the first commencement in an English American college: "Nine bachelors commenced at Cambridge; they were young men of good hope." Three years later Winthrop wrote that "by agreement of the commissioners [of the New England Confederation]...
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The Founding of Harvard College

Samuel Eliot Morison - Education - 1935 - 472 pages
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The Harvard Square Book

Herbert F. Vetter - History - 2007 - 112 pages
...Commencement was holden at Cambridge in 1642, at which time nine Students took the degree of Bachelor of Arts. "They were young men of good hope, and performed their...acts so as gave good proof of their proficiency in tongues and arts." Most of the members of the General Court were now present; "and dined at the college...
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North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal

1873 - 522 pages
...spirit of loyal fidelity, that he takes note of the first Commencement at Harvard, October 9, 1642 : " Nine bachelors commenced at Cambridge ; they were...proof of their proficiency in the tongues and arts." But of these nine " bachelors," the first fruits of the College, seven, as we shall see, left the country...
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Educational Review, Volume 9

Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1895 - 554 pages
...Scientia est utilissitna, Hcebrcea est Linguarum Ittater, and Lingua Latino, est eloquentissiina. " Nine bachelors commenced at Cambridge ; they were...of good hope, and performed their acts, so as gave proof of their proficiency "Ibid., I, 369-372. u History of Harvard University, p. 9. ls New England's...
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Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1846 - 598 pages
...and ninety-one Students in this ancient and very respectable seminary ; and, for several preceding hope, and performed their acts so as gave good proof of their proficiency in the tongues and arts." * Most of the members of the General Court were now present, " and dined at the college with the scholars...
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