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...conceived by Dr. John P. Fisher, who, tradition says, buttonholed an unfamiliar but handsome and able - looking young man on Boylston Street one day, and made him the first director on the spot. He was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, whose wife wrote the now-famous words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The institution was named after Col. Thomas H. Perkins, who was once asked by George Washington to accept the secretaryship in his cabinet, but refused because he already owned more ships than the United States government. Between 1832, when the first classes were held in the home...
Outsiders were hard at it, too. Cinemactor Gene Lockhart, celebrating a Navy Chaplain's now-famed words during the attack on Pearl Harbor, wrote a "fighting hymn," Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition. General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press tapped out America Needs You. Citizens Song had words by Louis Conyers (pen name of Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan, daughter-in-law of John Pierpont Morgan...
...thousands of Christians. We stood outside the cathedral, prevented by police from entering God's house. We were freezing but we could not leave the place. We had to find expression for what we felt. We were silent. Then I heard a voice start Luther's old hymn, A Mighty Fortress is Our God. We all sang and as we stood facing the police, the old song sounded mightier than. I had ever heard...
...long while. They had built churches and schools on the wild New Guinea coast, and they had raised the black New Guinea children in the ways of God. They were Germans, of course, but they were Lutheran Germans. When they sang, their song was some fine old Lutheran hymn like Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress...
...music in him than preaching. When Benjamin Hanby died at 33, he had written 75 songs. Two others are still sung today: a children's Christmas song, Up on the Housetop (Up on the housetop, click, click, click; Down through the chimney with good St. Nick), and the hymn Who Is He?, included in the hymnal of the Church of England in Canada...