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“Jam fides et pax, et honor pudorque

Priscus, et neglecta redire Virtus

Audet.”

A thanksgiving ode was then sung, accompanied by instrumental music.

A grateful commemoration of the benefits which the City of Dublin had conferred upon the University, by Richard Baldwin, F.T.C.—

“Laudabunt alii claram Rhodon aut Mitylenen.”

Verses commemorating the hospitality shown to the members of the University when dispersed, by the sister Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, were recited by Benjamin Hawkshaw, B.A., William Tisdall, B.A., Jeremiah Harrison, B.A.—

“ ... Quales decet esse Sorores.”

Then there was a Latin debate on the subject, “Whether the Sciences and Arts are more indebted to the Ancients or the Moderns.”

For the Ancients—Nicholas Foster, B.A.

For the Moderns—Robert Cashin, B.A.

Then followed a “Carmen seculare lyricum,” recited by Anthony Dopping, son of the Bishop of Meath—

“Alterum in lustrum meliusque semper

... Proroget ævum.”

Concerning the increase of University studies, in a humorous speech by Thomas Leigh, B.A.