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It was Monday October 7, as specified by the Miami catalog:
"The College year begins on the First Monday of October, and ends on Commencement Day, the Second Thursday of August – with a recess of ten or twelve days at Christmas, and a vacation of three weeks from the Second Thursday of March."
You will note that the "second Thursday of August" in 1839 was the eighth.
Incidentally I forgot to mention that "Blackstone" is a great name in the study of law: his Commentaries on the Laws of England was THE law textbook at that time. And except for Smith, all the rest of the Eight studied law.
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