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mino procancellario convocante, conveniant, donec major pars totius numeri in unam fententiam confpiraverint; et ut eorundem placitum, in fcripta digeftum, ante diem primum Martii proxime infequentis in fenaculo veftro publicetur."

This grace, after fome deliberation, passed the caput; and was then read, for the first time, in both houses.

Upon the evening of the fame day, I reprinted the grace, paffed upon the fifth of

July,

portance of the caufe, and the confidence, derived from the expectation that I fhall be fupported by the voice of an approving public, forbid me to defpond. And if at last, after the exertion of every manly effort, overborn by the weight of prejudice, and circumvented in my endeavours to obtain a fair and candid decifion of my queftion, I fhould be obliged to defift, I fhall not remain altogether without my confolation; as, exclufively of the fatisfaction derived from the approbation of the friends of learning and religion, I fhall retire with the perfuafion, that, in confequence of my Aruggles, the task of academical reformation will be rendered more eafy to thofe who fhall hereafter be dif pofed to undertake it; and fhall, therefore, have laid in a fund of pleafing reflections, more than fufficient to compenfate for the anxieties, and ill treatment, which I have experienced in the profecution of my defign.

Cambridge, Nov. 4, 1773.

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July, together with the preceding grace; and, in an appeal to the members of the senate, which was immediately circulated in the univerfity,* I again urged those reasons, which, in my apprehenfion, rendered invalid the resolution of the twenty-firft of October.

Upon the following day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when, on account of the contested election of a chemical profeffor, near three hundred members of the fenate were prefent, my grace was read the fecond time in the non-regent house. A nonplacet being put in, it was voted in that house, and, upon the fcrutiny, the numbers appeared as follow: non-placets 67, placets 38.

Thus, unconscious of an intention to mifrepresent the conduct of any gentleman concerned, I have continued my narrative to the prefent hour; and have, with all faithfulnefs, unfolded the most material circumstances, attending the propofal of an inftitution, which has long appeared to me most likely to refore our credit with the public. An institution, which, after many ineffectual

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mino procancellario convocante, conveniant, donec major pars totius numeri in unam fententiam confpiraverint; et ut eorundem placitum, in fcripta digeftum, ante diem primum Martii proxime infequentis in fenaculo veftro publicetur."

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after some deliberation, passed the caput; and was then read, for the first time, in both houses.

Upon the evening of the fame day, I reprinted the grace, paffed upon the fifth of

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July,

portance of the caufe, and the confidence, derived from the expectation that I fhall be fupported by the voice of an approving public, forbid me to defpond. And if at laft, after the exertion of every manly effort, overborn by the weight of prejudice, and circumvented in my endeavours to obtain a fair and candid decifion. of my queftion, I should be obliged to defift, I fhall not remain altogether without my confolation; as, exelusively of the fatisfaction derived from the approbation of the friends of learning and religion, I fhall retire with the perfuafion, that, in confequence of my Aruggles, the task of academical reformation will be rendered more easy to those who fhall hereafter be difposed to undertake it; and fhall, therefore, have laid in a fund of pleafing reflections, more than fufficient to compenfate for the anxieties, and ill treatment, which I have experienced in the profecution of my defign.

Cambridge, Nov. 4, 1773.

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July, together with the preceding grace; and, in an appeal to the members of the fenate, which was immediately circulated in the university,* I again urged those reasons, which, in my apprehenfion, rendered invalid the refolution of the twenty-firft of October. Upon the following day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when, on account of the contefted election of a chemical profeffor, near three hundred members of the fenate were prefent, my grace was read the second time in the non-regent house. A nonplacet being put in, it was voted in that house, and, upon the fcrutiny, the numbers appeared as follow: non-placets 67, placets 38.

Thus, unconscious of an intention to mifrepresent the conduct of any gentleman concerned, I have continued my narrative to the prefent hour; and have, with all faithfulnefs, unfolded the most material circumftances, attending the propofal of an institution, which has long appeared to me most likely to refore our credit with the public. An institution, which, after many ineffectual

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remonftrances of a more private nature, I was at length prevailed upon to propose to our academical corporation, upon the encouragement of perfons, whofe characters I reverence, and whofe opinions, in whatever relates to the advancement of literature, and the honour of our university, I think it wifdom to respect.

This encouragement, I truft, would be a fufficient apology, in the estimation of an indulgent public, for the part I have taken in a question, which I was induced to engage in, from a principle of affection to the interests of our university, and a defire of being ufeful in my generation, without the remoteft profpect of temporal emolument to myself. But I reft my defence upon the merits of my cause. Upon the fame basis, I reft my expectations of success. If I have formed a wrong judgment concerning the neceffity of academical reformation; if the plan I have proposed, after that fair and candid difcuffion, which is generally afforded to every fubject of apparent confequence, fhall prove to be either impracticable or inexpedient; the system itself, together with the

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