. The Harvard book : a series of historical, biographical, and descriptive sketches. 1781 on account of the Revolutionary War. As to the day for holdingthem, it has been from the beginning what the Catholics call a Movable Sibley finds himself unable to fix the precise day of the Commencement of1642, but it was probably in August. The days were changed from time totime as the authorities thought best. For a long time it was held on the firstWednesday in July. In 1678 the day was altered for the nonce, because a greateclipse of the sun occurred on the first Wednesday of July. Fifty ye
. The Harvard book : a series of historical, biographical, and descriptive sketches. 1781 on account of the Revolutionary War. As to the day for holdingthem, it has been from the beginning what the Catholics call a Movable Sibley finds himself unable to fix the precise day of the Commencement of1642, but it was probably in August. The days were changed from time totime as the authorities thought best. For a long time it was held on the firstWednesday in July. In 1678 the day was altered for the nonce, because a greateclipse of the sun occurred on the first Wednesday of July. Fifty years agoand for some years previous it was held on the last Wednesday in August,—aseason at that period very favorable to a brilliant attendance. About 1850 thetime for holding Commencement was changed to the latter part of July, and oflater years to early in June. For more than the first hundred Commencements,— indeed, I believe, for the first hundred and twenty-one, — the exercises were allin Latin, and consisted of theses and disputations on various logical, grammatical,. FIE ST FAMISH CHUMCH COMMENCEMENT DAY. 153 ethical, physical, and metaphysical topics. These exercises, or some of them, werenot discontinued till 1820. The first Oration in English was delivered at theCommencement of 1763 by Jedediah Huntington, of Connecticut, afterwards ageneral in the Revolutionary Army, and prominent in the affairs of his the revival of Commencements in 1781, if not earlier, English exercisesmade a chief part of the services. That year the first poem in our academicalannals was delivered by John Davis, for forty years the United States DistrictJudge for Massachusetts, and for seventeen Treasurer of the College,—an emi-nent jurist and a man of great classical and general erudition. An EnglishOration was the highest honor of the University for several years, the LatinSalutatory being the second. In the year 1787 another Oration was addedto the exercises, in recognition
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