She earned three degrees here, culminating in her Ph.D. After graduating from Cornell University in 1912, she taught high school for six years before coming to Boston University for graduate studies. Now a name that you probably know: Georgia Harkness (1891-1974) was born in Harkness, New York, a small Adirondack town named for her grandfather. He edited a number of hymnals and hymn-related books, the most notable being A Hymnal for American Youth (1919), The American Century Hymnal (1921), Hymns for the Living Age (1926), The American Student Hymnal (1928), and Lyric Religion: The Romance of Immortal Hymns (1931). In effect, he was an exponent of multimedia long before the term was invented. His appointments here at BU went through many shifts of names, but my all-time favorite among his various titles was “Professor of Church Worship, Music, Hymnody, and Pageantry”-now there’s a title for you! In an age when entertainment options were much fewer than they are today, he was a tireless advocate for involving people, especially youth, in dramatic reenactments of Bible stories, hymn stories, missionary stories-anything that would teach through involvement. Then there was Henry Augustine Smith (1874-1952), the person in this group of worthies whose academic title I covet most.
New century hymnal accompanist edition series#
The purchasers of this series can only boast that they have these microfiches we have the real things. Some idea of the significance of the Nutter-Metcalf Collection in hymnological circles can be gained from the fact that in 2004 the commercial publisher IDC reproduced on microfiche 561 titles dating between 15, which they are marketing to other libraries. War Office and, like Nutter, collected hymnals and wrote on hymnology. (In 1913, he also taught hymnology at BU.) The other donor, Frank Metcalf, an 1886 BU alumnus, worked in the U.S. When not serving as a Methodist minister, Nutter collected hymnals and wrote both hymns and authoritative books on hymnology. Nutter graduated from STH in 1871, the year in which the Boston Theological School merged with Boston University. The next two people we have to take as a pair: Charles Nutter (1842-1928) and Frank Metcalf (1865-1945), because their combined collections of more than 2500 volumes form the core of the hymnological resources in the STH Library. One of them, “I love to worship thee, O Holy Ghost,” appeared in The Methodist Hymnal of 1935 (which remained in used for thirty years thereafter). Though his hymns have ceased to appear in current hymnals, his two most popular hymns appeared in almost 250 hymnals between 18. From 1873 onwards he was also professor of comparative theology and philosophy of religion. I would like to remind you of (or introduce you to) twelve of them: seven from the 19th century and five from the 20th century.Īn appropriate place to begin is none other than William Fairfield Warren (1833-1929), who was successively acting president of the School of Theology (1866–1873), president of Boston University (1873–1903), and dean of the School of Theology (1903–1911). Daw, Jr.īoston University School of Theology proudly and rightly calls itself “The School of the Prophets,” but it could equally well call itself “The School of the Hymn People.” Hymn-relatedness, after all, is firmly woven into the spiritual DNA of the Wesleyan tradition in which this school was founded, and it has manifested itself in notable men and women throughout the school’s history. The Heritage of Hymns at Boston University School of Theology By Carl P.
Faculty of the Biblical Institute, 1839-46.School of Religious Education and Social Service, 1918-39.
Boston University School of Theology 1891-1911.Boston University School of Theology, 1867-90.Methodist General Biblical Institute, 1847-1867.A People's History of the School of Theology
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