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vacaret. Sed Hippocratem ilium, huius artis saluberrimae et venerandissimse
paene auctorem, videor mihi videre adstantem et admonentem
jucundo hoc munere esse supersedendum, brevem enim esse
vitam, longam artem."
Other Americans who received honorary degrees were : Prof. I. H.
Hall, of New York; Prof. J. H. Thayer, of Cambridge ; Prof. O. C.
Marsh, of New Haven ; Simon Newcomb, of Washington, and Gen.
F. A. Walker, of Boston.
On Wednesday afternoon a garden party was given by the Lord
Lieutenant and Countess of Zetland at the Vice-Regal Lodge, -at which
more than a thousand guests were present. On Wednesday evening
the Tercentenary Banquet was given in the Leinster Hall. The
chair was occupied by the Earl of Rosse, Chancellor of the University.
At his right were His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, the Lord
Chancellor of Ireland, the Lord Primate, the Marquis of Londonderry,
Lord Kelvin, Sir Frederick Leighton, the Rt. Hon. David
Plunkett, and Dr. Ingram, F.T.D.C. On the left of the^Chairman were
the Provost of Trinity College, Dublin; General Viscount Wolseley,
the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, the Marquis
of Dufferin and Ava, Prof. Lannelongue, of Paris, the Bishop of
Derry, the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Mr. Lecky.
Among the toasts of the evening were : " The Universities," proposed
by Dr. Ingram, to which the Bishop of Oxford and Prof. Lannelongue
responded; "Trinity College, Dublin," proposed by the
Master of Trinity College, to which the Provost and the Hon. David
Plunkett and Mr. Lecky responded ; " Science, Literature and Art,"
proposed by Lord Dufferin, to which Lord Kelvin responded on
behalf of Science, the Bishop of Derry on that of Literature, and Sir
Frederick Leighton on that of Art.
•On Thursday, July 7, the guests and delegates, Faculty, Fellows
and Caput of the. University, formed in the quadrangle and proceeded
to the Leinster Hall, where the addresses of congratulation
were presented to Trinity College, Dublin, by the visiting delegates
on behalf of the universities and other learned bodies there represented.
One representative of each country made a short speech,
and in this capacity President Gilman, of the Johns Hopkins University,
gracefully and suitably voiced the sentiments of America.
Professor Edmund J. James being unfortunately unable to appear, the
University of Pennsylvania was represented by Professor John Shaw
Billings and Dr. Wm. Romaine Newbold. The congratulatory