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[HARVARD COLLEGE.] Two printed broadsides, for the Harvard commencement, 20 July 1791. Illustrissimo Johanni Hancock, Armigero, LL.D., Gubernatori; Honoratissimo Samuel Adams, Armigero, Vice Gubernatori..Theses hasce, jovenes in artibus initiate… Boston: Samuel Hall, 1791. The Order of the Exercises of Commencement, July 20, 1791. 22 ¼ x 17 ½in. Small closed tears along folds, small paper loss in center fold costing a few words. 1 page, 4to, soiling along lower edge. Both documents framed together (28 ¼ x 33in.).
THE HARVARD COMMENCEMENT The first broadside prints the theses completed by the graduating class in grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, politics, mathematics, physics, aesthetics and philosophy. The second states the schedule of events. The program begins with “A salutatory oration in Latin” by Moses-Porter Phelps and ends with an “English Oration on the French Revolution” by John Phillips.
THE HARVARD COMMENCEMENT The first broadside prints the theses completed by the graduating class in grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, politics, mathematics, physics, aesthetics and philosophy. The second states the schedule of events. The program begins with “A salutatory oration in Latin” by Moses-Porter Phelps and ends with an “English Oration on the French Revolution” by John Phillips.