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of Pennsylvania at the Tercentenary Celebration of the University of
Dublin, I beg leave to present the following report:
On Tuesday,the sthdayof July, 1892, the guests and delegates, in full
academic costume, were received by the Provost in the Examination
Hall. After the reception, which lasted about an hour, the procession
was formed in the quadrangle and marched through the gaily
decprated and crowded streets to St. Patrick's Cathedral, where the
celebration was duly inaugurated by a special service appointed for the
occasion. The sermon was by the Very Reverend Henry Jellet, D.D.,
Dean. At four o'clock in the afternoon the Fellows' Garden was the
scene of «one of the most beautiful and interesting ceremonies of the
week, when Miss Salmon, daughter of the Provost, planted in the
presence of more than four thousand invited guests a mulberry tree
as a companion to the ancient tree that has graced the gardens for so
many centuries. During the planting a beautiful Latin ode, written
by Prof. Tyrrell expressly for the occasion, was sung. At nine in the
^ evening the Tercentenary Ode wis performed in the Leinster Hall by
the University Choral Society, before a brilliant and enthusiastic audience.
The day's festivities were then brought to a close by a ball at
the Mansion House, tendered by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress
to the University and her guests.
At noon on Wednesday the Senate of the University met in the
Examination Hall to_confer honorary degrees upon certain of the
more distinguished of her guests. The honorary graduates led the
procession as it entered the hall, and were followed by the Professors,
Fellows, and by the University Caput, consisting of the Earl of
Rosse, Chancellor of the University; the Rev. Dr. Salmon, Provost
of the University, and the Rev. J. T. Barlow, Senior Master non-
Regent. The honorary degrees were then conferred upon eightythree
distinguished men, each group being welcomed by Prof. Tyrrell
with an appropriate Latin speech setting forth the services of Art,
Science or Literature that were thus recognized by the University.
When the degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon John
Shaw Billings, of Washington, Professor of Hygiene in the University
of Pennsylvania; Thos. Bryant, Pres.R.C.S.; Sir Andrew Clark,
Bart., Pres.R.C.P.; Adolf Gusserow, of Berlin; Jonathan Hutchinson,
of London, and Thos. Grainger Stewart, of Edinburgh, Prof.
Tyrrell said :
""Ad Doctoratum Medicinae accipiendum praesto sunt viri fama
omnes super aethera noti. Utinam omnes laudibus idoneis efFerre '
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