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DIVINITY SCHOOL REVERTS TO NAME USED BEFORE 1922

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By a vote of the Corporation and Board of Overseers, the name of the Theological School in Harvard University has been changed back to the Harvard Divinity School, its title previous to 1922.

The Harvard Divinity School and the Andover Theological Seminary were united in 1922 under the name of the Theological School in Harvard University, in order to make possible joint use of the large resources of the Andover Seminary. Dissatisfied with the arrangement, the Andover Board of Visitors took the matter to the court, and obtained a dissolution.

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