sion, any time before the course commences.”—Pennsylvania Gazette.
D.—page 75.
“Minutes of Board of Trustees, May 20, 1771.
“Agreed to the explanation made by the Faculty of the Clause for examining the Candidates for a Doctor’s Degree in Physic, which is as follows:—
“That such Candidates be examined on their Theses before the day of Commencement, and on that day, immediately before receiving their Degrees, they be asked a few Questions in Latin on the subject of their Thesis, which they are to answer in the same language.
“It is the order of the Trustees that the Fee for the Degree of Doctor in Physic, be to the Provost one Guinea, and one Guinea to each of the Medical Professors, and that the Public Commencement be held on Friday, June 28th.
“It is ordered that all the Fees on Degrees be paid or settled for before the conferring of Degrees.
“At the Commencement June 28th, 1771, the Degree of Bachelor of Physic was conferred on Benjamin Alison, Jonathan Easton, John Kuhn, Frederick Kuhn, Bodo Otto, Robert Pottinger, and William Smith.
“Messrs. Jonathan Elmer, of N. J.; Jonathan Potts, of Potts-grove, Pa.; James Tilton, of Dover; and Nicholas Way, of Wilmington, then presented themselves, agreeably to the Rules of the College, to defend, in Latin, the Dissertations printed for the Degree of Doctor in Physic.
“Mr. Elmer’s Piece, ‘De Causis et Remediis sitis in Febribus,’ was impugned by Dr. Kuhn, Professor of Botany and Materia Medica.
“Mr. Potts, ‘De Febribus intermittentibus, potissimum ter-tianis,’ was impugned by Dr. Morgan, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic.
“Mr. Tilton’s ‘De Hydrope’ was impugned by Dr. Shippen, Professor of Anatomy.
“Mr. Way’s ‘De Variolarum Insitione’ was impugned by Dr. Rush, Professor of Chemistry.
“Each of the candidates having judiciously answered the objections made to some parts of their Dissertations, the Provost conferred upon them the Degree of Doctor of Physic, with par-
