Mr. Peirce was born in September, 1778; and, after _being graduated_ at Harvard College, with the highest honors of his class.--_Ibid._, Vol. II. p. 390, and Chap. XXXVII. _passim_. He _was graduated_ in 1789 with distinguished honors, at the age of nineteen.--_Mr. Young's Discourse on the Life of President Kirkland_. His class when _graduated_, in 1785, consisted of thirty-two persons.--_Dr. Palfrey's Discourse on the Life and Character of Dr. Ware_. 2. _Intransitively_. To receive a degree from a college or university. He _graduated_ at Leyden in 1691.--_London Monthly Mag._, Oct. 1808, p. 224. Wherever Magnol _graduated_.--_Rees's Cyclopædia_, Art. MAGNOL. GRADUATE. One who has received a degree in a college or university, or from some professional incorporated society.--_Webster_. GRADUATE IN A SCHOOL. A degree given, in the University of Virginia, to those who have been through a course of study less than is required for the degree of B.A. GRADUATION. The act of conferring or receiving academical degrees. --_Charter of Dartmouth College_. After his _graduation_ at Yale College, in 1744, he continued his studies at Harvard University, where he took his second degree in 1747.--_Hist. Sketch of Columbia Coll._, p. 122. Bachelors were called Senior, Middle, or Junior Bachelors according to the year since _graduation_, and before taking the degree of Master.--_Woolsey's Hist. Disc._, p. 122. GRAND COMPOUNDER. At the English Universities, one who pays double fees for his degree. "Candidates for all degrees, who possess certain property," says the Oxford University Calendar, "must go out, as it is termed, _Grand Compounders_. The property required for this purpose may arise from two distinct sources; either from some ecclesiastical benefice or benefices, or else from some other revenue, civil or ecclesiastical. The ratio of computation in the first case is expressly limited by statute to the value of the benefice or benefices, as _rated in the King's books_, without regard to the actual estimation at the present period; and the amount of that value must not be _less than forty pounds_. In the second instance, which includes all other cases, comprising ecclesiastical as well as civil income, (academical income alone excepted,) property to the extent of _three hundred pounds_ a year is required; nor is any difference made between property in land and property in money, so that a _legal_ revenue to this extent of any description, not arising from a benefice or benefices, and not being strictly academical, renders the qualification complete."--Ed. 1832, p. 92. At Oxford "a '_grand compounder_' is one who has income to the amount of $1,500, and is made to pay $150 for his degree, while the ordinary fee is $42." _Lit. World_, Vol. XII. p. 247.