Marlatt re­ceived his bach­e­lor’s de­gree from De­Pauw Un­i­ver­si­ty in 1912, then served as an ar­til­lery of­fi­cer in World War I. He re­ceived his mas­ter’s and PhD from Bos­ton Un­i­ver­si­ty in 1922 & 1929. He al­so stu­died at Har­vard, Ox­ford, and the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Ber­lin. In 1923, he joined the fa­cul­ty of Bos­ton Un­i­ver­si­ty; in 1925, he be­came the first win­ner of the May Day Po­et­ry Tour­na­ment there. In 1938, he be­came dean of Bos­ton Un­i­ver­si­ty, but left in 1945 to take a po­si­tion as pro­fess­or of phil­o­so­phy of re­li­gion and re­li­gious lit­er­a­ture at the Per­kins School of The­ol­o­gy at South­ern Meth­o­dist Un­i­ver­si­ty in Tex­as.

Mar­latt served as as­so­ci­at­ed ed­it­or for the Amer­i­can Stu­dent Hymn­al in 1928, and as cur­at­or of the Trea­sure Room and Hymn Mu­se­um at the In­ter­church Cen­ter in New York Ci­ty from 1958 to 1962.

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Lyrics

1. Are Ye Able?
2. Spirit of Life, in This New Dawn (© 1926)
3. Through the Dark the Dreamers Came (© 1927)