The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

PRINCETOWN, Sept. 26.

This Day the Trustees of the College of New Jersey, attended the anniversary Commencement, in the Church. In the Morning, the Reverend Mr. Whitefield preached a Sermon on Phil. iii. 8. in the Close of which he gave a very striking and animated Exhortation to the young Gentlemen who were Candidates for the Honours of the College. The Exercises usual on such Occasions, were performed to the Satisfaction of all who understood them.

The following Theses were disputed, viz.

Mentiri, ut vel natio conservetur, haud fas est.
Lux rationis sola, incitamenta ad virtutem satis efficacia, non dabit.
Somnia non sunt universaliter inania et nil portendentia.
Nullam veram virtutem habet, qui omnes non habet.

The above Latin Theses, for the sake of English Readers, being translated, stand thus:

To lie, for the sake of saving even a whole nation is not lawful.
The light of nature alone, does not afford sufficient motives to virtue.
All dreams are not useless and insignificant.
He has not one true virtue, that has not every one.

The two last were disputed forensically in English.