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ecclesiamque ejus regendam, O homines peritissimi, tam in ecclesit congreganda
quam conservanda, vestra munera tam bene perfungimini quam laudibus altissimis
laudari meremini, benedictiones plurimorum in vestra capita quiescunt, propter con-
solationes illis per vos divinitus commissas ; vestrorum laborum fructum videtis,
eoque gaudetis, vestris instructionibus ac directionibus plurimi ad Deum conversi
fuerunt. O quam confirmatam ac corroboratam ecclesiam habemus ex verbis vestro-
rum labiorum quotidie nutritam ! Vester amor benignitasque erga eam tam magna
quam multa sunt quod ea debet Deo benedicere, ac vos extollere, propter vestram
benevolentiam ei largitam. Beneficia ecclestiastica una cum scholasticis grato animo
recipimus."
Then the learned Rector, Samuel Andrew, is similarly saluted, in an
address ending with these words :
" Sed etiam haec academia summo honore summoque splendore ac laudibus dig-
nissimis a tali Rectore coronatur, qualis singulis ac omnibus doctrinae ornamentis,
et maxima animi fortitudine, decoratur, a cujus illuminatione nostra academia cum
summis academiis literatis contendere audet ; tanta enim sunt ejus erga nos merita
quanta a nobis remunerari non possunt, sed tantum gratissimo ac deditissimo animo
agnosci."
The Other instructors, who were four tutors only—one a graduate of
four years standing, one of only three years, and one of only one year
the most conspicuous of whom were Samuel Johnson, afterwards President
of King's College, and Elisha Williams (though not a graduate of Yale,
the successor of Cutler in the presidency) are saluted as follows :
" Proximoque serenissimis ac non uno literarum genere doctissimis illis viris,
omnium disciplinarum scientia praeditis, nostris nempe vigilantissimis institutoribus
orationem omni salute praebemus, qui ... ad culmen doctrinae attigerunt,
artemque a capite ad calcem investigaverunt [i. e., Next, to those most august men,
most learned in all branches of letters, endued with knowledge of all sciences, our
most vigilant instructors, do we address ourselves with every salutation—to them
who have reached the pinnacle of learning;, and have investigated the principles of science from
top to bottov{\. O Musarum fautores, omnibus doctrinae dotibus induti, qui alios
videre pro scientia studiosissime quaerentes magnopere delectant, qui a nulla in-
dustriS nulloque labore abstinuerunt liberalia principia artium in nos instillare
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