General Theological Seminary Begins 156th Year
Diocesan Press Service. October 2, 1974 [74261]
NEW YORK, N. Y. -- The 156th academic year of the General Theological Seminary began on September 11, 1974, for the 164 students registered for classes for the Michaelmas Term. Of this total over 40 are incoming or junior-year students representing a significant increase in the number in this category over the 1973 figure. The total enrollment in the Master of Divinity program is 101, a figure up about 25 percent over 1973.
Traditional matriculation ceremonies will take place at Evensong in the Chapel of the Good Shepherd at 6:00 p. m. on October 28th. At this time all new students will be asked to ascribe to the matriculation oath and affix their names in the matriculation book which has been in constant use since 1822. The origin of the Seminary dates back to 1817 when the resolution establishing it was passed by General Convention. The preacher at the matriculation service will be the Rev. Dr. Thomas J. Taller, Professor of Liturgics.
Changes in the faculty this year include the appointment of the Rev. Dr. James A. Carpenter, Professor of Theology, as Sub-Dean; the appointment of the Rev. Dr. J. Robert Wright as St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowerie Professor of Ecclesiastical History; the appointment of the Rev. Dr. O. Sydney Barr as the Glorvina Rossell Hoffman Professor of the Literature and Interpretation of the New Testament; the re-appointment of the Rev. Dr. Schuyler, S.J., as Associate Professor of New Testament; and the appointment of the Rev. Frederick L. Houghton as part-time lecturer in Church and Society jointly made with his call to become rector of St. Peter's Church, Chelsea.