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...Board of Preachers has definitely decided to revise the University Hymnal. The need of some such revision though only recently called to public attention, has long been felt among undergraduates and Faculty. The revision will be thorough and will therefore take time, probably a matter of months rather than of weeks. The plan as at present conceived by the Board, and indeed the only feasible plan, is to meet from time to time and discuss personal suggestions...
...result will not be an adoption of some other hymnal but a compilation which will unite the best selections from the old book with some of the more recent hymns...
...recent meeting of the Chapel Committee of the St. Paul's Society, it was resolved to urge the revision of the University Hymnal. From the lack of interest shown in hymn singing by the congregations at Appleton Chapel and from the fact that the Hymnal has not been found to meet the need of other colleges, and for many other reasons, the Committee felt that it expressed the desire of an increasing number of students in recommending this revision. Immediate steps will be taken to bring the matter to the Board of Preachers...
...action taken by an undergraduate body for the revision of the University Hymnal marks a significant change in what formerly has been considered the religious attitude of the students. In 1895 it was found expedient to revise and enlarge with great care the hymnal which Edward Everett Hall, Phillips Brooks, Alexander McKenzie, and George A. Gordon had compiled nine years before, and now, after seventeen years that have seen even greater changes in the University, it is no wonder that the need of revision is again felt. No attempt was made by the second group of compilers to provide...
...would suggest that the idea of a supplement which previously has been considered be abandoned as undignified and insufficient, and that a new hymnal which would be useful to Harvard and similar institutions be requested of the Board of Preachers...