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| name = Max Hunter Harrison
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| birth_date =December 24, 1893
| birth_place = [[Victoria, Illinois]]
| death_date = 1986
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| church = [[American Baptist Mission]]
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| education = 1911-1913, [[Knox College (Illinois)|Knox College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts]]) 1913-1916, [[Andover Newton Theological School]] ( [[Bachelor of Sacred Theology]]) 1916-1917, [[Andover Newton Theological School]] ( [[Master of Theology]]) 1916-1917, [[Harvard Divinity School]] ( [[Master of Education]])
| ordained =June 21, 1918, [[West Newbury]]
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| offices_held =Principal, [[United Theological College (Bangalore)|United Theological College]], [[Bengaluru]]<ref name="Hiwale"/>
| title = Reverend Doctor
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'''Max Hunter Harrison''' (December 24, 1893<ref>[http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/General_Catalogue_1000882808/99 ''General Catalogue of Andover Newton Theological School'']</ref> – 1986<ref name="Hiwale">K. M. Hiwale (Compiled), ''Directory of the United Theological College 1910-1997'', Bangalore, 1997. Former members of staff, p.1.</ref>) was the Principal<ref name="Herald">''The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad'', Volume 133, Missionary herald, 1937, p.315. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zkPmAAAAMAAJ&q=max+hunter+harrison&dq=max+hunter+harrison&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBWoVChMI0I-26ePxyAIVJxamCh04sQ6j]</ref> of the [[United Theological College (Bangalore)]], the only autonomous College under the nation's first University, the [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]].

==Studies==
Harrison graduated from [[Knox College (Illinois)|Knox College]] majoring in [[Mathematics]] and [[Greek language|Greek]]. He then enrolled for a spiritual course at the [[Andover Newton Theological School]], [[Newton, Massachusetts|Newton]] where he earned a [[Bachelor of Sacred Theology]] degree.<ref>''The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad'', Volume 133, Missionary herald, 1937, p.315. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zkPmAAAAMAAJ&dq=max+hunter+harrison&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=knox]</ref> He later studied at the [[Harvard Graduate School of Education]] and the [[Harvard Divinity School]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=wHkNAQAAMAAJ&dq=max+hunter+harrison+bangalore+died&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=hunter ''Harvard Alumni Directory'', Harvard University, 1948, p.1120]</ref> His dissertation was later published with the title, ''Hindu Monism and Pluralism as Found in the Upanishads and in the Philosophies Dependent Upon Them''.<ref name="OUP">Max Hunter Harrisonm, ''Hindu Monism and Pluralism as Found in the Upanishads and in the Philosophies Dependent Upon Them'', Oxford University Press, 1932. [https://books.google.com/books?id=duQYAAAAIAAJ&dq=max+hunter+harrison+harvard&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=andover]</ref>

==Principalship==
In 1937, Harrison was appointed as the Principal of the Seminary<ref name="Herald"/> and served until 1954<ref name="Ten"/> 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,<ref name="Hiwale"/> 1931-1958 and again from 1963-1965.

==Writings==
* 1932, ''Hindu Monism and Pluralism as Found in the Upanishads and in the Philosophies Dependent Upon Them''<ref name="OUP"/>
* 1956, ''The place of Old Testament studies in Indian theological education<ref>M. H. Harrison, ''The place of Old Testament studies in Indian theological education'', ''Indian Journal of Theology'', Volume 5.1 (Mar. 1956): 1-8.[http://biblicalstudies.org.uk/articles_ijt_01.php]</ref>''
* 1957, ''After Ten Years''.<ref name="Ten">M. H. Harrison, ''After Ten Years''. Cited in Yorke Allen, ''A Seminary Survey: A Listing and Review of the Activities of the Theological Schools and Major Seminaries Located in Africa, Asia, and Latin America which are Training Men to Serve as Ordained Ministers and Priests in the Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Churches'', Harper, 1960, p.[https://books.google.com/books?id=dYQ9AAAAYAAJ&q=M.+H.+harrison+bangalore&dq=M.+H.+harrison+bangalore&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAGoVChMIvsukle_xyAIVQtymCh3RWA8d]</ref>

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|after=[[J. R. Chandran]]
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|after=[[E. C. John]]
| years=1931-1958/1963-1965}}<ref name="Hiwale"/>
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==References==
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[[Category:Knox College (Illinois) alumni]]

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