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...School and Andover Theological Seminary will hold a Christmas service in Divinity Chapel this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Arthur Stanley Wheelock, of Andover Seminary, will deliver the sermon, and following will be the order of service: Ilymn: 92. Invocation. Responsive Reading: Selection 40. Chant: Magnificat. Scripture Lesson. Prayer. Hymn John Clark Reilly Sermon: Arthur Stanley Wheelock. Hymn: 94. Benediction...
...tabernacle on "Student Night" last evening. The big tabernacle was crowded to capacity and fully 10,000 were turned away at the most notable service so far of the "Billy" Sunday campaign. Delegations from every educational institution in and nearby Boston were present. After the opening hymn each delegation gave its cheer. The singing by the huge choir, particular the "echo-singing" across the tabernacle, worked up the spirit of the meeting...
...students being so unacquainted with it that they know not even the words. Certainly there is no calling into question of its sanctity when it is played in an outburst of enthusiasm by a band trained to render it as a march. We cannot conceive it possible that the hymn may imbibe into its essence any coarse or unpleasant aspect because it resounds oftener in the ears of students; and the band hopes that such a community spirit in the rendering of the hymn may call into new life the "wholesome conservative opinion of many of the older members...
Many colleges choose to make use of their hymns as march tunes and songs of victory, but it has always been a source of satisfaction to us here, if the writer is not mistaken, that the most sacred of the old Harvard songs, revered alike for its antiquity and its associations, is sung and played only upon most solemn occasions or at moments of deepest feeling. We have a notion that by maintaining our hymn aloof from freer and coarser use, we render it cleaner and pleasanter as a remainder of the more inspiring aspects of University life...
Every Harvard man stands up and bares his head when he hears the first strains of the old hymn,--yet who can imagine in his fellow classmen an impulse to uncover during the modernified rendition brought forward by the Band...