A   DAY   AT    HARVAKD,    CONTINUED.  Z6\)

the  office  of  Lord  Treasurer  was  put  in  commission  (May,
1667),  and  Downing  College,  Cambridge,  England,  was  founded
by  a  grandson  of  the  baronet,  in  1717.
The  class  of  1763  was  in  many  respects  a  remarkable  one,
fruitful  in  loyalists  to  the  mother  country.  Three  refugee
judges  of  the  Supreme  Court,  of  which  number  Sampson  Salter
Blowers  lived  to  be  a  hundred,  and,  with  the  exception  of  Dr.
Holyoke,  the  oldest  of  the  Harvard  alumni ;  Bliss  of  Spring-
held  and  Upham  of  Brookfield,  afterwards  judges  of  the  high-
est court  in  ^ew  Brunswick  ;  Dr.  John  Jeffries,  the  celebrated
surgeon  of  Boston,  and  others  of  less  note.  On  the  Whig  side
were  Colonel  Timothy  Pickering,  General  Jedediah  Hunting-
ton, who  pronounced  the  first  English  oration  ever  delivered  at
Commencement,  and  Hon.  Nathan  Cushing.
Benjamin  Pratt,  afterwards  Chief  Justice  of  New  York  under
the  crown,  was  a  graduate  of  1737.  He  had  been  bred  a  me-
chanic, but,  having  met  with  a  serious  injury  that  disabled  him
from  pursuing  his  trade,  turned  his  attention  to  study.  Gov-
ernors Belcher,  Hutchinson,  Dummer,  Spencer  Phips,  Bowdoin,
Strong,  Gerry,  Eustis,  Everett,  T.  L.  Winthrop,  the  two  Presi-
dents Adams  and  the  Governor  of  that  name,  are  of  those  who
have  been  distinguished  in  high  political  positions.  The  names
of  those  who  have  become  eminent  in  law,  medicine,  and  divin-
ity would  make  too  formidable  a  catalogue  for  our  limits.
