Max Hunter Harrison


Max Hunter Harrison was the Principal of the United Theological College, the only autonomous College under the nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College.

Studies

Harrison graduated from Knox College majoring in Mathematics and Greek. He then enrolled for a spiritual course at the Andover Newton Theological School, Newton where he earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree. He later studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Divinity School. His dissertation was later published with the title, Hindu Monism and Pluralism as Found in the Upanishads and in the Philosophies Dependent Upon Them.

Principalship

In 1937, Harrison was appointed as the Principal of the Seminary and served until 1954 when J. R. Chandran took over.
K. M. Hiwale, a past Registrar of the College records that Harrison taught at the College during two periods, 1931-1958 and again from 1963-1965.

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