Nine Bachelors commenced at Cambridge; they were young men of good hope, and performed their _acts_ so as to give good proof of their proficiency in the tongues and arts.--_Winthrop's Journal, by Mr. Savage_, Vol. I. p. 87. The students of the first classis that have beene these foure years trained up in University learning (for their ripening in the knowledge of the tongues, and arts) and are approved for their manners, as they have _kept_ their publick _Acts_ in former yeares, ourselves being present at them; so have they lately _kept_ two solemn _Acts_ for their Commencement.--_New England's First Fruits_, in _Mass. Hist. Coll._, Vol. I. p. 245. But in the succeeding _acts_ ... the Latin syllogism seemed to give the most content.--_Harvard Register_, 1827-28, p. 305. 2. The close of the session at Oxford, when Masters and Doctors complete their degrees, whence the _Act Term_, or that term in which the _act_ falls. It is always held with great solemnity. At Cambridge, and in American colleges, it is called _Commencement_. In this sense Mather uses it. They that were to proceed Bachelors, held their _Act_ publickly in Cambridge.--_Mather's Magnalia_, B. 4, pp. 127, 128. At some times in the universities of England they have no public _acts_, but give degrees privately and silently.--_Letter of Increase Mather, in App. to Pres. Woolsey's Hist. Disc._, p. 87. AD EUNDEM GRADUM. Latin, _to the same degree_. In American colleges, a Bachelor or Master of one institution was formerly allowed to take _the same_ degree at another, on payment of a certain fee. By this he was admitted to all the privileges of a graduate of his adopted Alma Mater. _Ad eundem gradum_, to the same degree, were the important words in the formula of admission. A similar custom prevails at present in the English universities. Persons who have received a degree in any other college or university may, upon proper application, be admitted _ad eundem_, upon payment of the customary fees to the President.--_Laws Union Coll._, 1807, p. 47. Persons who have received a degree in any other university or college may, upon proper application, be admitted _ad eundem_, upon paying five dollars to the Steward for the President.--_Laws of the Univ. in Cam., Mass._, 1828. Persons who have received a degree at any other college may, upon proper application, be admitted _ad eundem_, upon payment of the customary fee to the President.--_Laws Mid. Coll._, 1839, p. 24. The House of Convocation consists both of regents and non-regents, that is, in brief, all masters of arts not honorary, or _ad eundems_ from Cambridge or Dublin, and of course graduates of a higher order.--_Oxford Guide_, 1847, p. xi. Fortunately some one recollected that the American Minister was a D.C.L. of Trinity College, Dublin, members of which are admitted _ad eundem gradum_ at Cambridge.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 112.