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Harvard Hymns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Warren Seymour Archibald
Affiliation:
Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Extract

Most readers of this article have sung, and many have learned by heart, a noble Christmas hymn whose music is now heard in more than one continent:—

It came upon the midnight clear,

That glorious song of old;

but few of those who sing and love it know that it was written by a country minister who graduated from the Harvard Divinity School. Fewer still are aware that a series of men have proceeded from this department of Harvard University who, for now almost a hundred years, have maintained this succession in sacred song. What may properly be called a school of religious poetry constitutes a worthy part of the contribution to literary culture which Harvard has made and which through many generations formed the peculiar and greatest distinction of New England.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1912

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References

1 Samuel Longfellow, by Joseph May, p. 50.

2 Ibid., p. 54.