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and Sweetland, two Bachelors, spoke a dialogue of Lord Lyttleton's between Apicius and Darteneuf, upon good eating and drinking. The Mercury (who comes in at the close of the piece) performed his part but clumsily; but the two epicures did well, and the President laughed as heartily as the rest of the audience; though considering the circumstances, it might admit of some doubt, whether the dialogue were really a burlesque, or a compliment to the College. "An anthem and prayer concluded the public exercises. Much decency and regularity were observable through the day, in the numerous attending concourse of people."--_Life of Jeremy Belknap, D.D._, pp. 69-71. At Shelby College, Ky., it is customary at Commencement to perform plays, with appropriate costumes, at stated intervals during the exercises. An account of the manner in which Commencement has been observed at other colleges would only be a repetition of what has been stated above, in reference to Harvard and Yale. These being, the former the first, and the latter the third institution founded in our country, the colleges which were established at a later period grounded, not only their laws, but to a great extent their customs, on the laws and customs which prevailed at Cambridge and New Haven. COMMENCEMENT CARD. At Union College, there is issued annually at Commencement a card containing a programme of the exercises of the day, signed with the names of twelve of the Senior Class, who are members of the four principal college societies. These cards are worded in the form of invitations, and are to be sent to the friends of the students. To be "_on the Commencement card_" is esteemed an honor, and is eagerly sought for. At other colleges, invitations are often issued at this period, usually signed by the President. COMMENCER. In American colleges, a member of the Senior Class, after the examination for degrees; generally, one who _commences_. These exercises were, besides an oration usually made by the President, orations both salutatory and valedictory, made by some or other of the _commencers_.--_Mather's Magnalia_, B. IV. p. 128. The Corporation with the Tutors shall visit the chambers of the _commencers_ to see that this law be well observed.--_Peirce's Hist. Harv. Univ._, App., p. 137. Thirty _commencers_, besides Mr. Rogers, &c.--_Ibid._, App., p. 150. COMMERS. In the German universities, a party of students assembled for the pur
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