Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin: Course Catalog, 27, number 2, April 1934

Bulletin

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COLUMBIA

THEOLOGICAL

SEMINARY

CATALOGUE

and

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Published Quarterly at
Decatur, Ga.

Volume XXVII April, 1934 No. 2

Entered as Second Class Matter May 9, 1928, at the Postoffice at Decatur, Georgia,
Under the Act of August 24, 1912.

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Owned and Controlled by the Synods of
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina

Conservative in Outlook
Progressive in Purpose

Scholarly in Method
Scriptural in Teaching

CALENDAR

Commencement 1934

SUNDAY, MAY 13
11:00 A.M. Baccalaureate Sermon, Rev. John McSween, D.D., President of

Presbyterian College.
7:30 P.M. Annual Sermon before Society of Missionary Inquiry, Rev. Dud-
ley Jones, D.D., Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, Presby-
terian College.

MONDAY, MAY 14
11:00 A.M. Installation of Student Officers. Address by J. R. McCain, Ph.D.,

LL.D., President of Agnes Scott.
7:00 P. M. Senior Banquet.

TUESDAY, MAY 15
9:00 A.M. Meeting of Board of Directors.
1 :00 P. M. Annual Alumni Luncheon.

2:30 P.M. Presentation of portrait of the late Dr. Henry Alexander White,
Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis, 1902-1926.
8:00 P.M. Inaugural address of President James McDowell Richards, D.D.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16
10:30 A.M. Annual Commencement Exercises, Address to Graduating Class,
Rev. A. A. Little, D.D., Pastor First Presbyterian Church, Merid-
ian, Miss.

Conferring of Degrees and Presentation of Certificates.
Awarding of Prizes and Distinctions.

SESSION 1934-1935
Fall Quarter

Thursday, Sept. 13. 11:00 A. M. Session begins.

Chapel Services. Address. Matriculation. Announcements.
Sept. 13-16 Opening Devotional Services.
Nov. 23-28 Examinations.
Nov. 29 Thanksgiving.

Winter Quarter

Friday, Nov. 30. 8:30 Class Work Resumed.
Thursday, Dec. 20, 1 :00 P. M. Christmas Vacation begins.
Thursday. Jan. 3, 8:30 A. M. Class work resumed.
Feb. 19-23 Examinations.

Spring Quarter

Tuesday, Feb. 26. 8:30 A. M. Class work resumed.

May 7-11 Examinations.

Sunday, May 12 Baccalaureate Sermon and Missionary Address.

Monday May 13 Installation of Student Officers. Senior Banquet.

Tuesday, May 14

9:00 A.M. Meeting of Board of Directors.

1:00 P.M. Alumni Luncheon.

8:00 P.M. Inaugural Address of Professor Patrick H. Carmichael, Ph.D.,
D.D
Wednesday, May 15, 10:30 A. M. Graduating Exercises.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Officers

J. Sprole Lyons President

J. B. Hutton Vice President

Frank K. Sims Secretary

Miss C. Virginia Harrison Assistant Secretary

Class Going Out 1934

Rev. A. A. Little Meridian, Miss.

Rev. E. L. Hill Athens, Ga.

Rev. A. G. Irons Fairfield, Ala.

D. W. Robinson, Esq Columbia. S. C.

Rev. F. K. Sims Dalton, Ga.

Rev. C. W. McCully Sharon, S. C.

Rev. L. E. McNair Orlando, Fla.

Class Going Out 1935

J. W. Dickson. Esq Anderson, S. C.

H. B. Dowell, Esq Prattville, Ala.

Rev. E. D. Brownlee Sanford, Fla.

J. Bulow Campbell, Esq Atlanta, Ga.

Rev. John McSween Clinton, S. C.

Rev. J. B. Hutton Jackson, Miss.

Rev. J. Sprole Lyons Atlanta. Ga.

Class Going Out 1936

John D. Baker, Esq Jacksonville, Fla.

J. R. McCain. Esq Decatur, Ga.

S. H. Edmunds, Esq Sumter. S. C.

Rev. O. M. Anderson Jackson, Miss.

Rev. A. L. Patterson Savannah, Ga.

Rev. G. M. Telford Abbeville, S. C.

Rev. S. B. Hay Auburn, Ala.

Executive Committee

J. Bulow Campbell Chairman

F. K. Sims Secretary

E. L. Hill J. Sprole Lyons D. W. Robinson

J. R. McCain Sam Burney Hay

Finance Committee

J. Bulow Campbell Chairman

C. H. Baldwin J. C. Copeland D. W. Robinson

W. D. Beatie J. S. Kennedy H. Lane Young

J. S. Kennedy, Atlanta. Ga Treasurer

VISITING SPEAKERS AND LECTURERS

Dr. Edward Grant Nashville, Term.

Dr. J. E. Purcell Richmond, Va.

Dr. Herman L. Turner Atlanta, Ga.

Dr. William Anderson Dallas, Texas

Rev. Wade C. Smith Greensboro, N. C.

Dr. George Lang University, Ala.

Rev. J. E. Hannah Newnan, Ga.

Rev. R. W. Oakey Atlanta, Ga.

Rev. C. M. Lipham Atlanta, Ga.

Dr. Wade H. Boggs Atlanta, Ga.

Dr. T. W. Lingle Davidson, N. C.

Dr. John R. Cunningham Louisville, Ky.

Dr. J. Fairman Preston Korea

Rev. Thos. E. Hill College Park, Ga.

Rev. Walt Holcombe Decatur, Ga.

Dr. John S. Conning New York City

Dr. P. D. Miller Atlanta, Ga.

Dr. Frazer Hood Davidson, N. C.

Rev. Joseph H. Cudlip Columbia, S. C.

Dr. H. W. McLaughlin Richmond, Va.

Rev. L. A. Davis Atlanta, Ga.

Rev. Ralph Hawkins Decatur, Ga.

Dr. Harvey W. Cox Emory University, Ga.

Dr. Ellis A. Fuller Atlanta, Ga.

Mr. C. T. Stewart Brazil

Mr. James Morton Atlanta, Ga.

Rev. A. 0. Armstrong China

Dr. A. F. Raper Decatur, Ga.

Miss Louise Lewis Decatur, Ga.

Dr. J. K. Fancher Atlanta, Ga.

Rev. Wm. Boyce Atlanta, Ga.

FACULTY MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

The Rev. James McDowell Richards, A.B., A.M., B.D., D.D.

President and Professor of Pastoral Theology

A.B., Davidson College; A.M., Princeton University; A.B., A.M., Oxford Uni-
versity; B.D., Columbia Seminary; D.D., Davidson College.

The Rev. William M. McPheeters, A.B., D.D., LL.D.

Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis,
and Apologetics

A.B., Washington & Lee University; Graduate of Union Theological Seminary
of Virginia; D.D., Presbyterian College; D.D., Washington & Lee Univer-
sity; LL.D., Davidson College; Graduate Work, University of Chicago.

The Rev. Edgar D. Kerr, A.B., B.D., D.D.

Professor of Old Testament Language, Literature, and Exegesis

A.B., Davidson College; B.D., Columbia Theological Seminary; B.D., Princeton

Theological Seminary; D.D., Presbyterian College; Graduate

Work, University of Chicago.

The Rev. James B. Green, A.B., D.D.

Professor of Systematic Theology, Christian Ethics, and Homiletics

Peabody Normal College; A.B., University of Nashville; Graduate of Union
Theological Seminary of Virginia; D.D., Presbyterian College.

The Rev. Wm.Childs Robinson, A.B., A.M.,B.D.,Th.M.,Th.D.,D.D.

Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Church Polity, and Missions

A.B., Roanoke College; A.M., University of South Carolina; B.D., Columbia

Theological Seminary; Th.M., Princeton Theological Seminary;

Th.D., Harvard University; D.D., Roanoke College.

The Rev. Samuel A. Cartledge, A.B., A.M., B.D., Ph.D.

Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis

A.B., University of Georgia; A.M., University of Georgia; B.D., Columbia
Theological Seminary; Ph.D., University of Chicago.

The Rev. Patrick H. Carmichael, B.S., Ph.D., D.D.
Professor of English Bible and Religious Education
B.S., University of Alabama; Graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary;
Ph.D., New York University; D.D., Southwestern.

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The Rev. Henry W. McLaughlin, A.B., D.D.

Visiting Instructor in Country Church Work

A.B., Hampden-Sydney College; Union Theological Seminary of Virginia;
Louisville Presbyterian Seminary.

The Rev. Jos. H. Cudlipp, A.B., B.D.

Visiting Instru-ctor in Religious Education and Theory of Worship

College and Seminary of Reformed Episcopal Church.

John D. Cotts, A.B.

Instructor in Introductory Greek

A.B., Hope College; Columbia Theological Seminary

G. Thomas Preer, A.B., A.M.

Instructor in Philosophy and Ethics

A.B., Davidson College; A.M., Brown University; University of Virginia;

Columbia Theological Seminary

James K. Fancher, A.B., M.D.

Medical Adviser

A.B., College of Montana; M.D., Emory University School of Medicine; Faculty

Emory University School of Medicine; Staff Piedmont

Hospital and Good Samaritan Clinic.

Mrs. Samuel A. Cartledge
Director of Music

Patrick H. Carmichael, Clerk of the Faculty

Wm. C. Robinson. Librarian

Mrs. F. C. Talmage

Mrs. S. A. Cartledge

Voluntary Assistants in Library

Miss C. Virginia Harrison. Registrar

Mrs. Edna M. Phinizy, Matron

THE SEMINARY

Historic Columbia

On December 15, 1828, the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia,
representing Presbyterianism from North Carolina to the Mississippi,
inaugurated this institution by electing Rev. Thomas Goulding, D.D.,
as its first professor. For two years Dr. Goulding conducted the
work, chiefly propaedutic, in the Presbyterian manse at Lexing-
ton, Ga.

In 1830 the Seminary was removed to Columbia, S. C, and the
Faculty complemented by the election of Dr. George Howe and Dr.
Aaron W. Leland. Located in the center of South Carolina's capital,
the Columbia campus was most attractive. It holds a place in the
affection of every one of the thousand students who in the past hun-
dred years have atteneded the Seminary. The old Chapel still
symbolizes the sanctity which was there so eloquently inculcated.
It is remembered as the place where Woodrow Wilson was "reborn
for eternity"; and where the Southern Presbyterian Book of Church
Order was written.

While located in the city whose name she bears, Columbia
Seminary numbered among her Faculty and alumni many dis-
tinguished leaders of thought and life in the Southern Presbyterian
Church. Indeed, the great distinctivities of our denomination were
largely coined and minted there. Any mention of our polity im-
mediately recalls the name of James Henley Thornwell; any con-
sideration of the principle of the spirituality of the Church brings up
the shade of Benjamin M. Palmer; while the missionary idealism
and enterprise of our Church have been incarnated in James Leighton
Wilson of Columbia's Society of Missionary Inquiry. Recently Dr.
S. M. Tenney, the best authority on Southern Presbyterian history,
has written:

"The fruit of your study, well substantiated, is that Columbia
Seminary has influenced the life of the Southern Presbyterian
Church far more than any other instittuion, and that is saying
much, and yet not so much as the facts you bring forward say."
In recent years a strong conviction developed in the Columbia ter-
ritory that a re-location of the institution was necessary. At the time
of the location in Columbia that city was near the center of the
Presbyterian population of the Southeast. The development of the
Gulf States and the shifting of the center of our constituency made
necessary the removal of the Seminary further to the West in order
to accomplish the original purpose for which the institution was
founded, namely: "to light up another sun which shall throw further
West the light of the Gospel."

In the fall of 1924 the controlling Synods of Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, and South Carolina, on recommendation of the Board of

FIRST HOME OF COLUMBIA SEMINARY
LEXINGTON, GA., 1828

JAMES HENLEY THORNWELL

Professor of Didactic and Polemic

Theology, 1856-1862

AUMliNlSlRAllOlN BUILDING
COLUMBIA, S. C, 1830-1927

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Directors, decided to remove the Seminary to Atlanta. Immediately
following this decision the Synod of Mississippi accepted the invita-
ton of her sister Synods to unite in the ownership and control of the
Seminary.

Atlanta Presbyterians provided a 57-acre campus upon the hills of
Decatur. During the presidency of Dr. R. T. Gillespie two theologi-
cal buildings, unsurpassed in the Presbyterian world, and four facul-
ty homes, were erected.

In 1928 the Centennial of the founding of the Seminary was cele-
brated during Commencement week, with the gracious participation
of the Atlanta General Assembly. In 1931 the Seminary's Society of
Missionary Inquiry celebrated its Centennial with addresses by Dr.
Darby Fulton, '15, and Dr. J. 0. Reavis, professor from 1913 to
1920; and a pageant representing the organization of the Society and
the century of its accomplishments.

The wisdom of removing the Seminary to Atlanta has been fully
justified by the success with which the removal has been accomplish-
ed and by the enthusiasm with which the Church throughout our con-
stituency has rallied to the support of her Seminary. The outlook
for the future development of the Seminary, and for the enlarge-
ment of its program to meet the ever increasing need of the Church,
is most encouraging.

The spirit of the old Columbia is being written into the life of
the new. In the light of modern scholarship the students of today
are gaining clear intellectual apprehensions of the great truths of the
Fathers. The romance of Columbia's yesterdays presages the reality
of her tomorrows.

Instruction

Columbia Seminary has always sought to maintain the highest
standards of scholarship and in recent years has taken the lead among
similar institutions in insisting that all incoming professors shall
hold an earned doctor's degree, or a graduate degree of similar stand-
ing, from some recognized university. Thus, while conservative in
theological outlook, this institution is progressive in method and
emphasizes the necessity for a broad acquaintance with all fields of
modern learning. Each member of the faculty is thoroughly pre-
pared in the field of his particular instruction and is well equipped
to lead his students in their studies and to assist them in evaluating
the material under consideraton. It is our belief that the modern
minister has a positive duty to be thoroughly conversant with mod-
ern scholarship and with all present trends in theological thought,
in order that he may meet the problems of his people. Hence it is our
effort to encourage a broad general reading while, at the same time,
laying a firm foundation for the student in a thorough acquaintance

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with the revealed truth of God's Word and with the historic standards
of our Church.

A real emphasis is placed upon genuine scholarship, for scholar-
ship is the invaluable tool of the minister. The fact is recognized,
however, that it is only a tool, and that unless it is dominated by the
spirit of Christ it is worthless. All instruction at Columbia, there-
fore, seeks constantly to emphasize the practical, spiritual, and de-
votional values of the material which is studied.

Grounds and Buildings

The physical equipment of Columbia Seminary in Decatur is in all
respects thoroughly modern and up-to-date. The buildings are con-
structed of red brick faced with grey limestone, and their architec-
ture, based upon the graceful lines of the academic Gothic, is beauti-
ful and impressive. Campbell Hall, the administration building, con-
tains the class rooms, the library, the chapel, the dining hall and
kitchen, social rooms, and offices of administration. In the entrance
hallway of this building, which was erected through the generosity of
Air. J. B. Campbell of Atlanta in memory of his mother, is a bronze
memorial on which is inscribed this inspiring and appropriate
legend :

CAMPBELL HALL

Erected in Loving Tribute to

A Devoted Consecrated Christian Mother

Virginia Orme Campbell
"There Is No Higher Calling on Earth
Than That of the Christian Ministry'

The dormitory is divided into four sections, two of which bear
the names of the Seminary's former dormitories in Columbia. Each
room has hot and cold running water, and there are showers on each
floor of each section. All windows in the dormitory are screened.
Rooms are furnished with beds, mattresses and pillows, study tables
and book shelves. Students are required to bring their own sheets,
bed covers, pillow cases, and towels. The whole plant is heated by
si earn. Four homes for faculty members have been built on the
campus, and several other members of the faculty have apartments
in the dormitory. All the buildings are beautiful and substantial,
and everything that might lend to their comfort and efficiency has
been included.

The campus, consisting of some fifty-seven acres of rolling wood-
land, is of unusual natural beauty, and allows ample room for future
expansion. During recent weeks, a number of the students working
under the direction of Dr. Carmichael have constructed a concrete
dam which will impound the waters of two small streams on the

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campus and form a woodland lake of about two and one-half acres
in area. It is hoped that this lake will furnish the students with an
opportunity for swimming, boating, and fishing.

Cultural Advantages

Greater Atlanta, a commercial and educational center with a popu-
lation of 350,000, offers many advantages in a social and cultural
way. In addition to the Seminary, it boasts of such schools as Agnes
Scott College, Emory University, Oglethorpe University, the Georgia
School of Technology, the University of Georgia Extension School,
and twenty-eight other institutions of learning, exclusive of public
schools. These schools draw many outstanding men and women to
the city, and students of the Seminary have splendid opportunities for
contacts with the faculty members and students of other institutions.
Atlanta has long been famous as perhaps the outstanding musical cen-
ter of the South, but it also draws visitors of distinction in practically
every field of human activity. Throughout the year students in the city
frequently have opportunities to hear preachers, educators, scholars,
and political leaders of national or world-wide fame, and to the
individual who uses these opportunities wisely, they constitute a
liberal education in themselves.

Opportunities for Observing Religious Work

The City of Atlanta, with its Presbyterian Church membership of
more than 10,000 and with its even larger enrollment in Presbyterian
Sunday schools, furnishes to the students various opportunities for
engaging in active religious work. Within the metropolitan area
every type of church and every form of Christian activity is found.
This gives opportunity to study the work of typical churches, both
of our own and of other denominations.

In the outlying agricultural districts, and in the villages and
towns which lie within easy reach of the Seminary, the students have
opportunity to study, under most favorable conditions, church work
in the rural and small town communities. This ideal location furn-
ishes exceptional advantages of a clinical nature for the thorough
preparation of ministers equipped for every task which the Church
faces. The opportunities thus afforded for studying methods of
church work at first-hand are of especial value to classes in Pastoral
Theology and in Religious Education, and greatly strengthen the
quality of the work offered in these departments. A description of
the observation work required in these classes will be found in the
brief prospectus of courses published elsewhere in this catalogue.

TERMS OF ADMISSION AND GRADUATION

Credentials

Every student seeking admission to the Seminary must present the
following credentials:

(1) A letter from the pastor or Session of the church of which
he is a member, stating that he is in full communion with the church,
possesses good natural talents, and is of a discreet deportment. If
the applicant is an ordained minister, he must present a letter from
the ecclesiastical body to which he belongs, stating that he is in
good and regular standing. Every Presbyterian student applying for
admission is expected to present a statement from his Presbytery
authorizing him to enter this Seminary.

(2) A college diploma or certificate showing the completion of a
regular course of academic study. If he has not completed such a
course, the student must be recommended by his Presbytery as an
extraordinary case and furnish testimonials showing that he has re-
ceived adequate training in subjects fundamental to the studies of
the Seminary. It is becoming increasingly difficult for men who
have not had full college training to find a place in the ministry, and
Columbia Seminary definitely discourages such men from seeking ad-
mission unless it be under most exceptional circumstances.

(3) A transcript of his record at the last institution attended.

College Preparation

The academic degree offered upon entrance to the Seminary
should represent four years of collegiate work. Other degrees than
that of Bachelor of Arts, showing the completion of an adequate
collegiate course will be accepted as satisfying the academic require-
ments for admission to the Seminary; but the classical course of
study leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts is the normal course
of preparation for the Seminary.

There is scarcely any branch of learning which is not of very great
value to the student for the ministry. Adequate time should be given
to Latin, Greek, Philosophy, Bible History, Ancient and Modern
History, the English Language, English Literature, Education, and
Psychology. It is also highly desirable that the student should have
the broadest possible acquaintance with the facts of modern science.

Instruction in the New Testament Department presupposes knowl-
edge of Greek. A student applying for admission should be able to
translate a passage of simple Attic prose and should have a fair
knowledge of the grammatical forms and syntax of the Greek lan-
guage. Students found to be inadequately prepared in this subject
are offered special courses in Elementary Greek during the first year
in Seminary, and do not begin the regular courses in the Greek New
Testament until the Middle Year.

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Students from Other Seminaries

A student coming from another seminary of recognized standing
will be received ad eundem gradum on his presentation of a letter
from that Seminary certifying to his good standing, and regularly
dismissing him to this Seminary. He must also comply with the
terms of admission set forth above, and if a candidate for the degree
of Bachelor of Divinity, he must satisfy the requirements of this
Seminary with reference to knowledge of the original languages of
Scripture.

Degrees

The standard degree of the Seminary is that of Bachelor of Divin-
ity (B.D.). Any student who completes in a satisfactory manner all
of the courses of study required in the Seminary, and who has pre-
sented to the Faculty a diploma of graduation from a fully accredit-
ed college or university, will receive a diploma from this Seminary
certifying that he has earned this degree.

The revised Form of Government authorizes the Faculty to grant
the degree of Master of Theology (Th.M.) for not less than one
year's additional resident study; and the degree of Doctor of Theol-
ogy (Th.D.) for not less than two years' additional resident work.
The latter of these degrees is not offered at the present time, however,
and it will be the policy of the institution not to offer it until such
a time as an enlargment of the Seminary's teaching and library staff
makes possible a greater emphasis on advanced research work.
Studies leading to the degree of Th.M. are now available for proper-
ly qualified students, however, and several men have already re-
ceived admission to the status of candidates for the degree.

Certificates

Students who do not possess the requisite academic diploma, but
complete the regular course of study in the Seminary, receive a cer-
tificate of graduation. A student who takes a partial course may re-
ceive a certificate setting forth those subjects which he has completed.

Pledge

Every applicant for admission who has presented satisfactory cre-
dentials is required by the Board of Directors to subscribe to the
following declaration:

"Deeply impressed with a sense of the importance of improving
in knowledge, prudence and piety, in my preparation for the gospel
ministry, I solemnly promise, in a reliance on divine grace, that I
will faithfully and diligently attend on all the instructions of this
Seminary, and that I will conscientiously and vigilantly observe all

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the rules and regulations specified in the plan for its instruction and
government, so far as the same relates to the students; and that I
will obey all the lawful requisitions, and readily yield to all the
wholesome admonitions of the professors and directors of the Sem-
inary while I shall continue a member of it."

Reports to Presbyteries

At the close of every term a report setting forth all necessary facts
with reference to each student's attendance, punctuality, deportment,
diligence, and class standing will be sent to the proper authorities
in his home Presbytery.

No student who does not satisfactorily complete all of his aca-
demic work and otherwise prove himself a worthy candidate will be
eligible for scholarship aid during the following year.

Expenses

Fees. No charge is made for tuition, room rent, fuel, light, or
library fees. Each student is expected to care for his own room in
the dormitory, but janitor service is provided for all other parts of
the buildings without cost to the students. A contingency fee of
$5.00 is charged each student at the beginning of the first quarter in
order that funds may be available to provide athletic equipment,
take care of breakage, and meet certain other emergency needs which
may arise during the year.

Board. The boarding department is efficiently administered by
Mrs. Edna Phinizy, who has served the institution as matron during
the past four years. Meals are furnished the students at actual cost
and, although this varies somewhat with the season and with the
number of students in the dining room, it has never been more than
five dollars per week and is often below that amount. An attempt
is made to make the meals as wholesome and as well balanced as
possible rather than as cheap as possible, and the regular fare will
compare favorably with that at any other institution. A dining
room committee is annually elected by the students to confer with the
president and the matron concerning any problems which may arise
in connection with this aspect of Seminary life.

Textbooks. All required books are available at our book store
at reduced prices, but there are also frequent opportunities for stu-
dents to economize by purchasing second-hand copies. The cost of
textbooks will usually average about $25.00 per year.

Incidental Expenses. The student's incidental expenses will
naturally be determined in large measure by the temperament and
disposition of the individual concerned. A careful student will be
able to hold this incidental expense to a surprisingly small amount.

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With the financial aid provided for candidates under the care of
our Presbyteries, many individuals on our campus meet all expenses,
including board, books, and incidentals. A student should be able
to provide, from other sources, enough to care for his transportation
and clothing. After the first year in the Seminary, this additional
expense may be supplemented by summer work and supply
preaching.

Financial Aid

Loans to Candidates. The General Assembly's Committee of
Christian Education and Ministerial Relief, Louisville, Ky., provides
a loan each year for deserving students who are properly recom-
mended by their Presbyteries. This loan is to be repaid under condi-
tions prescribed by the General Assembly. For the past two years
the Committee has fixed the amount of this loan at $60.00, though
improving conditions may make possible a slightly larger loan in the
future. Application for the loan should be made through the Chair-
man of the Committee of Christian Education in the Presbytery. The
Seminary will be glad to furnish information and to render assist-
ance in the matter.

The payment of the student's loan is usually made in four in-
stallments. The first installment is received in October; the other
three, at intervals of sixty days.

Scholarships. In addition to the loan described above the
Seminary will provide for each regular student, where it is abso-
lutely necessary, an annual scholarship of $150. In order to obtain
this scholarship the student must,

1st, have exhausted his own resources and have exercised the
opportunity to borrow from the Assembly's Executive Committee
of Christian Education;

2nd, present with his application a written statement from the
Chairman of Christian Education in his Presbytery recommending
that the scholarship be granted.

Under regulations which were first put into effect last year, all stu-
dents receiving scholarship aid are expected to render a reasonable
amount of service to the Seminary in return and student help is used
in the library, in the dining room, and on the grounds. The work
done is of substantial assistance to the Seminary and the students are
enabled to enjoy a feeling of greater independence and self-respect
through the fact that they are rendering some service in return for
the aid received. No student who marries during his Seminary course
is eligible to receive scholarship aid thereafter, nor can scholarship
aid be granted to any ordained minister who may enroll for special
or graduate work.

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Outline of Courses for the Bachelor of Divinity

Fall Quarter
101. New Testament
401. Homiletics
101. Eng. Bible

101. Hebrew

202. History

Elective

JUNIOR YEAR
Winter Quarter
102. New Testament
401. Pastoral Theol.
201. Missions

MIDDLE YEAR

102. Hebrew
301. Theology
102. Eng. Bible

SENIOR YEAR

109. Old Testament

Elective
304. Theology

Spring Quarter
103. New Testament
401. Relig. Ed.
201. History

103. Hebrew
302. Theology
103. Eng. Bible

110. Old Testament
301. Apologetics
Elective

108. Old Testament
201. Polity
303. Theology

Note: Students who enter without at least two years of Greek in college
must take N. T. 120 and N. T. 121 and N. T. 104 in their Junior year. The
latter course gives a credit of one major; the former ones are non-credit. The
regular New Testament courses, 101, 102, and 103, are then taken in the Middle
year. A fourth major must be taken in each of two quarters at some time
during the Middle or Senior year to complete the 27 majors required for
graduation, to compensate for the two non-credit courses taken.

The English Course

Students who take the English Course are permitted to omit
Hebrew; and, where they do not have the necessary preparation in
Greek, they are permitted to omit certain courses in New Testament
Exegesis. The courses in Introductory Greek provide an opportunity
for every student who wishes to do so to fit himself for work in New
Testament Exegesis.

Where the Hebrew and Greek are omitted, students must choose,
from among the electives, courses sufficient to bring their daily
work to fifteen hours per week.

Students who take the English Course are given certificates for
subjects completed.

The Degree of Master of Theology (Th. M.)

The degree of Master of Theology is to be granted to a student
who has attained a high degree of scholarship and has spent a year
or more in graduate study and has satisfied the requirements of the
Faculty for the degree. The Seminary is under no obligation to ad-
mit a student to candidacy for the degree unless the student can pre-
sent evidence of high scholarly attainments and promise, and unless
a satisfactory course of study can be planned from the courses
offered at the time. A prospective student should confer with the

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President and the professors under whom he plans to study before
undertaking the work.

A candidate for the master's degree must have the degree of B.D.
from this Seminary or its academic equivalent. He must have a
working knowledge of the Hebrew and Greek languages. Examina-
tions in the languages are to be taken under the professors of
Hebrew and New Testament; graduate students who have averaged B
or above in their undergraduate courses in Hebrew and New Testa-
ment will be exempted from the language examinations.

For this degree, a candidate must submit a thesis and at least eight
majors credit. Both the course of study and the subject chosen for
the thesis must be approved by the professors of the group of spe-
cialization. In no case shall less than three majors be taken in the
group of specialization. At least six majors must be taken in resi-
dence in this Seminary. No student may take more than three grad-
uate majors during one quarter. The thesis must be approved by a
committee of the Faculty at least two weeks before the degree is
granted. Three typewritten, bound copies of the thesis must be de-
posited in the library.

A student whose thesis subject and course of study have been ap-
proved by the professors of his group and who has passed the lan-
guage examinations may then apply for formal admission to candi-
dacy for the degree. Admission to candidacy is to be granted by a
majority vote of the Faculty. A student cannot be granted a degree
until at least four calendar months after he has been admitted to
candidacy.

At least a week before the degree is to be awarded, the candidate
must pass a satisfactory examination before the Faculty or a com-
mittee appointed by the Faculty. The examination may cover the
whole field in which the student is specializing, but emphasis will be
placed on the subjects covered in the thesis and the courses sub-
mitted for the degree.

Examinations

At the close of each quarter written examinations are held on all
the '.subjects studied during the quarter. No student is permitted to
be absent from the examination of his class except for satisfactory
reasons. The Faculty may exempt Seniors from the final exam-
inations in subjects in which their grades are B or above.

Grades and Distinctions

At. the close of each quarter grades are sent to all students and
their Presbyteries. A represents 95-100; B, 90-94; C, 85-89; D, 80-
84; E, 75-79; F, failure. Students who graduate with an average
of 95 or over and who have no grade below 90, graduate "magna

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cum laude." The distinction of "cum laude" is given to those stu-
dents whose average is 90-94 and who have no grade below 85. In
both instances the distinction is recorded upon the student's diploma.

The Schedule

In 1927 Columbia Seminary adopted the "Quarter System" which
is becoming so popular in leading universities and graduate schools
throughout the country. Each quarter has ten weeks for classes and
one week for examinations. Columbia now gives work during the
fall, winter, and spring quarters.

This system has proved most satisfactory, and it has several dis-
tinct advantages over the older system:

The unit of credit is the "major," one subject taken five days a
week throughout a quarter. A "minor" is a half-major. Each student
normally takes three majors a quarter; a student who makes at least
two B's and one A is allowed to take a fourth major during the next
quarter if he so desires.

The attention of the student is centered on three classes meeting
each day in the week instead of on seven or eight meeting one, two,
three, or four times a week. There are three examinations at the
end of each quarter instead of seven or eight.

The schedule is simplified. Related subjects can more easily
be placed in logical sequence.

An open Monday is secured without congestion on other days.
Students preaching on Sundays need miss no classes. An opportunity
is given for supplementary and collateral reading.

The simple unit of credit, the major, makes it easy for credits from
Columbia to be transferred to other graduate schools. Columbia
work is accepted at full credit by leading graduate schools of
America.

Students are enabled to enter at the beginning of any one of the
three quarters, though the work can be better correlated if they enter
at the beginning of the fall quarter.

Students may finish at the end of any quarter when the required
courses have been completed. Some students shorten the course by
attending some summer school or by taking four majors during
several quarters.

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CLASS SCHEDULE, 1934-35

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Tuesday to
Saturday

Fall Quarter

Winter Quarter

Spring Quarter

8:30

101. New Testament
120. New Testament
201. Polity

102. New Testament
121. New Testament
*** History

103. New Testament
301. Apologetics

9:30

401. Homiletics

*** New Testament

*** Relig. Education

401. Pastoral Theology
102. English Bible

104. New Testament
103. English Bible

10:30

Chapel

Chapel

Chapel

11:00

101. English Bible
202. History
303. Theology

201. Missions
102. Hebrew
304. Theology

201. History
103. Hebrew
301. Ethics

12:00

101. Hebrew

301. Theology

** English Bible

*** New Testament

401. Relig. Education
302. Theology

'Course to be selected from electives offered.

Due to a change in the sequence of some courses a year ago, the
Seniors of 1934-35 are on a transition schedule and will take the fol-
lowing courses: fall quarter, theology, polity, and an elective; winter
quarter, theology, pastoral theology, and an elective; spring quarter,
apologetics, religious education, and an elective.

STUDENTS" LOUNGE

COURSES OF STUDY

General Statement

The Curriculum materials of Columbia Theological Seminary have
been arranged in four major divisions as follows: (1) Biblical
Theology, (2) Historical Theology, (3) Systematic Theology, and
(4) Practical Theology. In addition to its simplicity, this arrange-
ment reflects the unity of the curriculum and at the same time em-
phasizes the closer relationship sustained by certain departments of
study within a given group. The latter emphasis, as indicated in
another section, offers especial advantages for specialization on the
part of graduate students.

In accordance with the new grouping, the system of numbering
courses has been changed. Numbers 101 to 199 inclusive are re-
served for courses in the first major division, numbers 201 to 299
inclusive are reserved for courses in the second major division, etc.,
thus providing each department an opportunity for expansion with-
out duplicating course numbers. For the arrangement of depart-
ments of study in the several divisions and for scheme of numbering
see the description of the courses of study which follow.

Group I
Biblical Theology

Professors Kerr, Cartledge, Carmichael, and Green. Mr. Cotts.
A. Old Testament Language, Literature, and Exegesis

The Church has always emphasized the importance of the orig-
inal languages of Holy Scripture in theological education. "The
Old Testament in Hebrew, and the new Testament in Greek, being
immediately inspired by God, the Church is finally to appeal unto
them." Therefore, the Seminary endeavors to fit students for the
ministry to use intelligently and effectively the original languages
in interpreting the Sacred Oracles.

The Elective courses are offered to qualified students, who have
taken Hebrew throughout the Middle year, and who have shown
capacity for further profitable study of the language. These courses,
except in the case of course 104, may be varied and adapted to the
interests of the students applying for them. They may also be con-
tinued for one quarter, or more.

101. Elements of Hebrew. The class begins the study of the
language by the inductive method. Orthography, etymology, and
syntax are taught from the Hebrew T text of Genesis. Note books are
used for exercises in the inflectional forms of the language, in trans-
lation, and in translation from English into Hebrew. Textbooks:
Harper's Hebrew T Method and Manual, and Harper's Elements of

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Hebrew (both revised by J. M. P. Smith). Required, Middle year,
Fall Quarter. Professor Kerr.

102. Elements of Hebrew, continued. This course continues
work begun in the fall quarter with progressive additions in detail,
until the principal grammatical elements of the language are covered.
Textbooks: Same as for course 101. Required, Middle year, Winter
Quarter. Professor Kerr.

103. Hebrew Reading and Syntax. Hebrew reading, chiefly
from Exodus and Deuteronomy, with special reference to vocabu-
lary and grammar. Syntax is taught by use of a textbook, and
by careful attention to examples as they occur in the Hebrew Bible.
Textbooks: Kittel's Biblia Hebraica; Hebrew Lexicon by Brown,
Driver and Briggs; Davidson's Hebrew Syntax. Required, Middle
year, Spring Quarter. Professor Kerr.

104. Advanced Hebrew Syntax. This course offers a thorough
study in the syntax of the language by the use of textbooks and
the reading and comparison of selected illustrative passages from
the Hebrew Text. Elective. Professor Kerr.

105. Hebrew Reading Course. The purpose of this course is by
rapid reading of extended passages to acquire a large vocabulary
and general facility in the use of the Hebrew Bible. Elective. Pro-
fessor Kerr.

106. Grammatical Interpretation of the Psalms. The class
will make detailed grammatical and exegetical studies in the Psalms,
which may be varied with passages from the Prophetic Writings.
The purpose of the course is to train the student in the practice of
grammatical interpretation of the Scriptures. Elective. Professor
Kerr.

107. Biblical Aramaic and Arabic. By arrangement with the
professor, courses will be given to qualified students in Aramaic and
Arabic. The number of hours and the particular nature of the
course will be determined by the needs and opportunities of the stu-
dents. Seminar, hours to be arranged. Work in these cognate lan-
guages may be substituted for a Hebrew Elective. Professor Kerr.

108. Old Testament Introduction. General introduction to
the Old Testament is taken up in this course, with particular at-
tention to the Canon and to certain specific lines of prophetic teach-
ing. Required, Senior year, Fall Quarter. Professor Kerr.

109. Old Testament Criticism. This course involves a study
of the rise and present status of different schools of criticism, with
consideration of the problems, methods, and principles of historical
and literary criticism. Required, Senior year, Winter Quarter. Pro-
fessor Kerr.

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110. Old Testament Practical Interpretation. During this
quarter the class will be occupied with detailed exercises and ex-
position of selected portions of the Old Testament Scriptures. Re-
quired. Senior year. Spring Quarter. Professor Kerr.

B. New Testament Language, Literature, and Exegesis

The courses in New Testament Literature and Exegesis are de-
signed to give a working knowledge of the New Testament. Every
minister should be a close student of the New Testament. It is the
purpose of this department to fit a man for a life-long study of this
priceless book. Every minister who hopes to lead must keep abreast
of the thought of the age. Students in this department are expected
to acquaint themselves with the trends of New Testament criticism,
radical and conservative, through the lectures, daily assigned read-
ing, and parallel reading.

All work in this department is on the basis of the Greek text.
Students who enter the Seminary without having had at least two
years of Greek in college are required to take in their Junior year
the two non-credit courses, 120 and 121, and the course 104. for
which credit can be counted as an elective: they will take the three
required courses during their middle year. A fourth major must be
taken in each of two quarters at some time during the Middle or
Senior year to compensate for the two non-credit courses taken in
the Junior year.

The three required courses give a general introduction to the
New Testament and give practice in detailed exegesis in the three
types of literature therein, historical, epistolary, and prophetical.
The work in this department is closely coordinated with that in the
department of English Bible.

Aside from the daily assignments, a certain amount of parallel
reading, in English or Greek or both, is required with each course.
Term papers are assigned with most courses, so that students may
acquire some facility in the technique of investigating rather thor-
oughly some of the typical problems in the field.

101. General Introduction and the Epistle to the Galat-
ians. Along with the detailed exegesis of, and special introduction
to, Galatians, a study is made of such introductory subjects as the
following: the Inter-Biblical period; the language of the New Testa-
ment, its characteristics and relation to antecedent and contemporary
Greek; textual criticism; the canon; the religious background of the
first century; and the principles of grammatico-historical interpre-
tation. Required, Junior year, Fall Quarter. Professor Cartledge.

102. The Synoptic Gospels. A study of the literature of the
Life of Christ, the extent and character of the sources, the literary
and historical character of the Synoptic Gospels, and the synoptic

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problem. Exegesis of one of the Gospels and a comparison, through
a Greek harmony, of the others. Required, Junior year, Winter
Quarter. Professor Cartledge.

103. The Book of Revelation. An intensive study of the one
prophetical book of the New Testament. Some comparison will be
made with the Old Testament and extra-canonical apocalypses. The
regular subjects of special introduction, including the Johannine
problem, will be studied. Students will be expected to acquaint
themselves thoroughly with as many different methods of interpreta-
tion of this book as possible. Required, Junior year, Spring Quarter.
Professor Cartledge.

104. The Greek of the New Testament Period. Readings in
the New Testament, the Septuagint, Epictetus, and the papyri. Em-
phasis will be placed on grammar and lexicography. Required for
students without college Greek, elective for others. Spring Quarter.
Professor Cartledge.

105. The Gospel of John. Introduction and exegesis. Em-
phasis will be placed on such critical questions as authorship, date,
relation to the Synoptics, historicity, etc. Elective. Professor Cart-
ledge.

106. The Acts of the Apostles. Exegesis of, and special in-
troduction to, the book of Acts. A brief introduction to the Pauline
letters and the chronology of the apostolic age. Elective. Professor
Cartledge.

107. The Epistle to the Romans. Introduction and exegesis.
An intensive study of the great doctrines of the Epistle. Elective.
Professor Cartledge.

108. The Epistles to the Corinthians. Introduction and
exegesis. The life of the early Church. Elective. Professor Cart-
ledge.

109. The Pastoral Epistles. Introduction and exegesis. The
organization of the early Church. Elective. Professor Cartledge.

110. The Life and Religion of Paul. This course is designed
for those wishing to do advanced research work in the New Testa-
ment. An intensive study will be made of various critical questions
connected with this subject, such as chronology, the Mystery Re-
ligions, Judaism, Hellenism, etc. Elective. Professor Cartledge.

111. The Epistle to the Hebrews. An intensive study of the
Greek of the Epistle and of introductory matters. The use of the
Old Testament in the Epistle. Elective. Professor Cartledge.

112. The Catholic Epistles. Introduction to, and exegesis of,
selected ones of the General Letters of the New Testament. Elective.
Professor Cartledge.

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113. The Text and Canon of the New Testament. An ad-
vanced seminar course for students who wish to pursue these studies
further than the introductory course. Elective. Professor Cartledge.

114. Geography and Archaeology. A study is made of the
geography of the Holy Land and the recent archaeological discoveries
and their bearing on the New Testament. Elective. Professor Cart-
ledge.

115. Modern Literature. An advanced course, in which quali-
fied students pursue a course of reading under the guidance of the
professor and make reports and have discussions from time to time.
Elective. Professor Cartledge.

Regularly, three of the elective courses will be given each year.
They will be selected by the professor to meet the needs and wishes
of students electing them. For 1934-1935 the probable courses will
be 107, 112, and 104.

120. Beginners' Grammar. A course in New Testament Greek
for beginners. Required of all students without college Greek. Junior
year, Fall Quarter. Non-credit. Mr. Cotts.

121. Readings in New Testament Greek. Completion of the
beginners' grammar and readings in the easier portions of the
New Testament. Required of all students without college Greek.
Junior year, Winter Quarter. Non-credit. Mr. Cotts.

C. English Bible, Old and New Testament Interpretation

In recognition of the important place which the English Bible
should occupy in the minister's study, in his thinking, and in his
preaching, Columbia Seminary includes as a part of her required
work three basic courses in this field. A number of elective courses
are also arranged, conditioned by the limitations of time on the
part of the Professor and the interests and needs of the students.

101. English Bible, the Life of Christ. An objective of this
course is to secure for the student a vivid picture of the Life and
Teachings of Jesus Christ through a careful study of the Gospel
record, the use of commentaries and other helps provided by the
library, class room discussions, etc. An excellent introduction to
exegetical study in the New Testament Department. Required, Junior
year, Fall Quarter. Professor Carmichael.

102. English Bible, the Minor Prophets. An intensive study
of the last twelve books of the Old Testament together with other
Biblical materials having a direct bearing upon the message of the
Prophets. An especial effort is made to discover the historic context
out of which the biblical record has come as an effective means of in-
terpretation, being careful at all times to definitely relate the mes-
sages of the distant past with situations of our own time. Required,
Middle year, Winter Quarter. Professor Carmichael.

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103. English Bible, the Acts and the Pauline Epistles. An
intensive study based primarily upon The Acts. In this bit of his-
toric material the student is led to the discovery of basic principles
which undergird the essential elements in the life and progress of the
Christian Church in every age. Required, Middle year, Spring
Quarter. Professor Carmichael.

104. English Bible, a Seminar Course. The materials included
in this course deal with three distinct elements of interest to the
student of the Bible: (1) the historic context of the Scriptures, (2) a
study of the literary types which inhere in the Scriptures, and (3)
the historic situation into which Jesus came. Elective. Professor
Carmichael.

105. English Bible, the Psalms. The object of this course is
to present the Psalms in their history, teachings, and use. The Psalms
are studied in their natural groups, and the groups are arranged with
reference to the soul's experience in its movement out of sin to-
wards God. The greater Psalms in each group are studied with care
in order to discover and display their truth and their beauty. Elect-
ive. Professor Green.

Group II
Historical Theology

Professor Robinson
A. History of the Christian Church

(Missions)

201-a. Telescopic View of Church History. The aim of this
course is to outline the field and to familiarize the student with the
outstanding facts and figures of the Christian movement. Each
century is passed in review. Texts by Qualben and Heussi. Required,
Junior year, Winter Quarter. Professor Robinson.

201-b. History of Christian Missions. The motive for missions
is found in the essence of Christianity as the revealed religion. The
foundation for missions in the New Testament and the story of mis-
sionary progress in ever enlarging concentric circles. Texts by Glover
and Carver with biographies. Required, Junior year, Winter Quarter.
Professor Robinson.

202. The Church in America. Elective. Professor Robinson.

B. History of Christian Thought

(History)

201. History of Christian Thought to the Reformation.
The course of history reveals a marked parallelism between the
logical and the historical developments of Christian doctrinal

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formulation. The chronological evolution follows the logical impli-
cation. The exposition of this organic and genetic development, as it
is seen on the screen of the centuries, often gives a real grasp of
its larger truths. Texts by Seeberg and Kidd. Required, Junior year,
Spring Quarter. Professor Robinson.

202. The Reformation and Modern Religious Ideas. The
Reformation with special study of Luther and Calvin. The various
defiinitions of the rule of faith with the consequent modifications of
Christianity issuing therefrom. The influence of the philosophical,
scientific, and critical movements upon Christian thought. The sys-
tems of Schleiermacher, Ritschl, Troelsch, Barth. The rise and de-
velopment of liberal theology in America. Texts by Seeberg, Pater-
son, Kuyper, and Burggraaff. Required, Middle year, Fall Quarter.
Professor Robinson.

203. The Teachings of John Calvin. Texts: Institutes, with
works of Doumergue and Warfield. Elective. Professor Robinson.

204. The Place of Jesus Christ in Modern Christianity as
seen in representative books by "liberals," mission groups, Church
leaders, and conservative scholars. Elective. Professor Robinson.

205. History of the Doctrine of the Atonement with special
emphasis upon the four great syntheses of Christian knowledge, the
Patristic, the Scholastic, the Protestant, and the Modern. Elective.
Professor Robinson.

206. The History of the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Its
Biblical basis and its elucidation by the Fathers and the Reformers.
Elective. Professor Robinson.

207. The History of Non-Christian Cults. Outline of the
theories of religion: study of historic religions. Texts by Schmidt
and Moore. History of the cultist movement in America. Text by
Van Baalen. Elective. Professor Robinson.

C. History of Christian Institutions

(Polity)

201. Presbyterianism, in Its History and Polity. The polity
of primitive Christianity and the rise of the episcopate out of the
presbyterate. The restoration of Presbyterianism at the Reformation.
A survey of the Presbyterian Churches of the world. Source studies
are made in the polities of Calvin, Knox, Melville, the Westminster
Assembly, Hodge, and Thornwell. Texts, Ogilvie and Leslie. Re-
quired, Senior year, Fall Quarter. Professor Robinson.

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Group III

Systematic Theology

Professors Green and Robinson. Mr. Preer.

A. Dogmatics

301. Introduction and Theology Proper. Introduction em-
braces such matters as definition, method, source, the Scriptures, etc.
Theology Proper is distributed as follows: theism, anti-theism, na-
ture and attributes of God, the Deity of Christ, the nature and office-
work of the Hily Spirit, the decrees of God, the works of God. Text-
book: Reformed Dogmatics, by Louis Berkhof, Introductory Volume
and Volume I. Parallels: Strong and Warfield. Required, Middle
year, Winter Quarter. Professor Green.

302. Anthropology and Christology. Anthropology treats of
the origin, nature, and original state of man, the covenant of works,
the fall, sin, free agency. Christology covers such sub-topics as the
plan of salvation, covenant of grace, person and work of Christ, the
estates of Christ. Textbook: Berkhof, Volume I. Parallels: Strong,
Warfield, Orr, Shedd, Hodge. Required, Middle year, Spring Quar-
ter. Professor Green.

303. Soteriology and Eschatology. Of soteriology these are
the subdivisions: the order of Christian experience, regeneration,
faith and repentance, justification, adoption, sanctification and the
means of grace the word, sacraments, and prayer. Eschatology is
the doctrine of last things, and includes such interesting subjects as
the immortality of the soul, the state of the soul immediately after
death, the resurrection of the body, the second coming, future re-
wards and punishments, hell and heaven. Textbook: Berkhof,
Volumes I and II. Parallels: Strong, Warfield, Hodge, and others.
Required, Senior year, Fall Quarter. Professor Green.

304. Confession and Catechisms. The final course in Theology
is an examination of the Standards of our Church, the Confession of
Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms. The aim here is
not only to acquaint the students with the symbols of our Church,
but to afford them a review and a new view of the most important
matters considered in the earlier stages of the course. Textbooks:
A. A. Hodge and F. R. Beattie on The Standards. Required, Senior
year, Winter Quarter. Professor Green.

B. Apologetics

301. Required Apologetics. The function of Apologetics. The
history of and the present need for Apologetics in the current revolt
against historic Christianity. Vindication of the knowledge of God
given in Christianity; that is, Theism; the religious nature of man;
the Christ of the Bible as the historic Jesus; the infallible truth and

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Divine authority of the Scriptures. Texts by McPheeters, Warfield,
et. al. Senior year, Spring Quarter. Professor Robinson.

302. Elective Apologetics. A comparison and contrast of
theistic and anti-theistic epistemology, with a vindication of theism
as against the current anti-theistic philosophies. Texts by C. Van Til
and J. L. Girardeau. Professor Robinson.

303. Philosophy of Religion. As an introduction to the course
a brief study will be made of current viewpoints in philosophy of
religion. This study will lead directly into the central problems of
the subject, such as the use of the predicates "transcendent" and "im-
manent" ascribed to the being of God. In dealing with these prob-
lems, emphasis will be put upon the logical and theological implica-
tions of Christian Theism, and upon the manner in which they
serve as a basis for a criticism of other systems of religious thought.
Fairbairn's work, The Philosophy of the Christian Religion, will be
used as a text in the study of these problems. Other material sources
will be: W. E. Hocking's book, The Meaning of God in Human Ex-
perience; W. P. Paterson's book, The Nature of Religion; B. B. War-
field's Studies in Theology, and Girardeau's Discussions of Phil-
osophical Questions. As a concluding study, the implications of
Christian Theism for science will be demonstrated, and the contribu-
tions of Kuyper, Hepp, and Patton will be used as sources for this
part of the study. Elective. Mr. Preer.

C. Christian Ethics

301. Christian Ethics. Conscience, considered as the immed-
iate, irreducible source of moral value, is taken as the starting point
of this study. Conscience is viewed in its two correlative aspects:
the rational and the emotional; and in the light of this division, the
non-theistic ethical systems are criticized according to what they
affirm and deny about it. Then the theistic ethical system is given
positive statement in the nature of general principles based upon
Scriptural facts about conscience. Towards the last of the term,
particular problems of Christian conduct are weighed in the light
of the preceding study. Elective. Mr. Preer.

Group IV

Practical Theology

Professors Carmichael, Richards, and Green. Dr. McLaughlin.
A. Religious Education

During the past two decades we have witnessed marked progress
in the development of Religious Education as a specialized field of
thought. Many of the leading theological seminaries have added it
to their curriculum offerings, and churches everywhere are seeking
greater efficiency by the use of facilities made available through

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research in this field. Columbia Seminary is committed to the belief
that tremendous possibilities inhere in this relatively new subject
for the training of ministers. We are employing the laboratory
method in this department to the end that the student may be
privileged to carefully correlate the theoretical and the practical as
the two are merged in a definite church situation.

401. The Organization and Administration of the Church
Program. This course combines extensive library work, free class
discussion, observation in the Churches of Greater Atlanta, a care-
fully written survey of some particular phase of the Church pro-
gram of especial interest to the individual student, together with
especial assignments made from time to time during the quarter.
Required, Junior year, Spring Quarter. Professor Carmichael.

402. The Curriculum of Religious Education. This course
is designed to lead the student into a fairly adequate conception of
the basic principles underlying the curriculum of Religious Educa-
tion, together with the practical application of those principles in
the work of the Church. Elective. Professor Carmichael.

403. A Seminar Course. A survey course embracing some
twenty-five or thirty of the most recently published books in the
field of religion. These volumes are selected to secure for the stu-
dent a fair cross-section of current trends in religious thought.
Credit one minor. Elective. Professor Carmichael.

B. Pastoral Theology

401. Pastoral Theology. This course is especially intended to
furnish the young minister with the general principles upon which
he may meet and solve some of the practical problems which he
must face when he begins his active ministry. The only textbook
used in connection with the course is Dr. Chas. R. Erdman's volume
on The Work of the Pastor, but the principle work done by the class
is in the field of parallel reading. Each student is required to read
a number of volumes dealing with such subjects as personal evangel-
ism, the pastor's responsibility for missions, the theory and methods
of conducting public worship, the pastor's duty as a citizen and a
member of society, pastoral psychology, church organization and
finance, and church publicity, and to make written reports upon
them.

A special effort is made to acquaint all students with the work of
our Church's Executive Committees and agencies through visits from
representatives of these groups. The wealth of pastoral experi-
ence available in the Presbyterian pulpits of Atlanta is drawn upon
through messages delivered by individual ministers who are invited
to address the class upon phases of pastoral work in which they have
met with unusual success. Members of the class are also required to
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nominations in Atlanta to observe the conduct of worship and to
secure ideas of value in connection with planning the life and work
of their own churches. Required course. Winter Quarter, Seniors
and Juniors in 1935, Juniors only in succeeding years. Professor
Richards.

402. The Country Church and the Bible. It is the purpose
of this course to discover and relate the teachings of the Bible to
rural conditions and problems of today. Textbooks: The Bible,
and Country Church and Public Affairs, by McLaughlin. Required,
Junior year, nine lectures. Dr. McLaughlin.

403. Rural Religious Conditions. This course is a study of
rural life as it is related to conditions and relationships which have
come to pass in recent years, to discover the needs of the country,
how to meet these needs, and which fields of endeavor are most fruit-
ful. Textbook: Religious Education in the Rural Church, by Mc-
Laughlin. Required, Middle year, nine lectures. Dr. McLaughlin.

404. Methods of Efficiency. In this course we study the pro-
gram of the country preacher, for himself, the church, the commun-
ity, and his relationship to other agencies working for community
advancement. The aim of this course is to discover every-day prob-
lems of the country preacher and mission worker, with a view to
finding their solution, as offered by the experience of successful min-
isters and country churches. Textbooks: The Neiv Call, by Mc-
Laughlin, and other books. Required, Senior year, nine lectures.
Dr. McLaughlin.

C. Homiletics

401. The Theory and Practice of Preaching. In this course
both the theory and the practice of preaching are studied, but the
emphasis is on the practical. The aim is to teach men: What preach-
ing is and How to do it. The preacher, his call, his message, his
personality, his preparation, are discussed. During the second half
of the course, sermon briefs are required every week, and special
effort is made to train the men in the treatment of texts that they
may be "sound workmen, with no need to be ashamed of the way
they handle the word of the Truth.'" The textbooks in this depart-
ment are Broadus' Preparation and Delivery of Sermons and Her-
rick Johnson's The Ideal Ministry. Required, Junior year, Fall
Quarter. Professor Green.

LIBRARY

The library of Columbia Seminary is in many respects the most
extensive and the most valuable collection of theological literature in
the South, forming an indispensable adjunct to the work carried on
in the class-rooms. In it are incorporated the larger parts of the
libraries of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D.D., Rev. John Douglass, Rev.
George Howe, D.D., Rev. S. Beach Jones, D.D., Rev. S. M. Smith,
D.D., Rev. R. C. Reed, D.D., Rev. J. L. Martin, D.D., Rev. J. W.
Flinn, D.D., Rev. Thornton Whaling, D.D. New books are being con-
tinually added. The libraries of the professors, amounting to several
thousand volumes, are also accessible to the students, and have been
used to exceedingly helpful effect.

The Smyth Library Fund

The late Rev. Thomas Smyth, D.D., of Charleston, S. C, made pro-
vision in his will for the endowment of the library with a gift of
$10,000, and the income from this fund is used for the purchase of
additional volumes. This generous bequest has made it possible for
our library to keep abreast of student needs by purchasing such books
as are needed each year for the proper development of the library
facilities, and assures the continual addition to the library of indis-
pensable new books.

Librarians

Unfortunately the endowment of the library does not permit the
employment of a full time librarian at present, but the work of the
library is under the able direction of Dr. Wm. C. Robinson and is
carried out by competent student asssitants. Mrs. F. C. Talmage of
Atlanta and Mrs. S. A. Cartledge are rendering the Seminary an
invaluable service by cataloguing and indexing all volumes in the
library according to the excellent system of classification now fol-
lowed in the library of Union Theological Seminary of New York.
This is a task which has been voluntarily undertaken by these ladies
and which is being carried out as a labor of love for the institution at
the price of a very great expenditure of time and strength on their
part. A very considerable number of volumes has already been listed
and arranged under the new system, and this work constitutes one of
the most valuable contributions which has been made to the life of
the Seminarv in recent vears.

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Lectures on the Thomas Smyth Foundation

Through the generosity of the late Rev. Thomas Smyth, D.D., Pas-
tor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Charleston, S. C, a lecture-
ship has been established, called the Thomas Smyth Foundation. In
accordance with the conditions of the bequest, some person of worthy
character and distinguished for learning and ability is chosen each
year by the Board and the Faculty to deliver a course of lectures
on the fundamental principles of the Christian faith.

The funds bequeathed by Dr. Smyth to found this lectureship
amount to $10,000, and the interest on this amount each year is used
in providing for the delivery of the lectures. For the past twenty-
three years distinguished scholars and ministers have treated a large
variety of themes, doctrinal, critical, practical, archaelogical, and
historical. A list of these lecturers will be found on one of the
last pages of this bulletin.

The lectures for the school session of 1933-34 were delivered by
Professor Frazer Hood, Ph.D., Litt.D., of Davidson College, whose
subject was "The Christian's Faith."

Announcement has been made that Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer, Pro-
fessor of Missions in Princeton Theological Seminary, has accepted
an invitation to present the lectures upon this foundation for the
year 1934-1935, and that in 1935-1936 the lecturer will be Dr.
Cornelius Van Til, Professor of Apologetics at the Westminster
Theological Seminary.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Society of Missionary Inquiry

Soon after the Seminary was organized, the Society of Missionary
Inquiry was founded for the purpose of furthering an interest in
missions, both at home and abroad. It has been greatly strengthened
since the removal of the Seminary to Atlanta.

Regular meetings are held each Tuesday evening. At these meet-
ings various phases of Christian work are discussed by students
who are appointed in advance, or by specially invited speakers. For
a number of years the Society has conducted the "Week-of-Prayer"
for Foreign Missions, using as speakers our foreign missionaries who
are on furlough. Each year a liberal offering has been made at
the close of the week.

Lnder direction of the Society, the members visit and conduct
services in city missions, county homes, prisons and prison camps,
and other institutions; they render special programs in Young Peo-
ple's Societies and churches, and give regular assistance in nearby
Sunday Schools.

LADIES' PARLOR

A MUSICAL INTERLUDE

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"The J. Leighton Wilson Missionary Room" has been opened in
Campbell Hall. The room contains a number of highly prized mis-
sionary books, curios, and trophies. This collection dates back to
the early years of the Society, and it contains among other valuable
missionary curios, the medicine chest used by Dr. Wilson while in
Africa, and a leaf from the Diary of David Brainard. The Society
is now making an effort to increase this valuable collection. As far
as possible, the pictures of all the graduates of the Seminary, who
have gone to foreign mission fields, will be placed in this room.

In February, 1931, the Society celebrated its centennial. Dr. J. 0.
Reavis, Dr. S. L. Morris, and Dr. Darby Fulton gave addresses to
the Society and its friends. A pageant was presented, depicting "A
Century of Service." A resume of the pageant was presented before
the Chattanooga Congress on World Missions at the request of the
authorities of the Congress.

Members of the Student Volunteer Movement in the Seminary
take an active part in the work of the Society of Missionary Inquiry,
but in addition they frequently study in fellowship among themselves
and cooperation with the Student Volunteer Unions of Atlanta, mat-
ters of special interest concerning missionary preparation.

The Quartette

For a number of years past Columbia Seminary has been repre-
sented by excellent quartettes which have occupied a prominent place
in the musical life of the institution and have rendered a variety of
services. Engagements have been filled at Sunday Schools, Church
services, young people's societies, Men-of-the-Church meetings,
Woman's Auxiliary meetings, public schools, colleges, conventions,
men's luncheon clubs, women's clubs, evangelistic meetings, hos-
pitals, prisons, and at other places. During the past twelve months
this group has sung in four states and in more than a score of
cities. By invitation, the quartette has rendered, from time to time,
acceptable programs over radio station WSB of the Atlanta Journal,
Atlanta, Ga., and over several other stations in cities visited.

Members of the quartette have opportunity to form many pleasant
and profitable contacts, and to render real service to the Seminary,
the Church, and the Kingdom. The success of this group and the
many favorable comments which have been made upon its work are
attributable, in very large degree, to the splendid musical training
given the students by Mrs. S. A. Cartledge, the Seminary's Director
of Music.

Religious Exercises

A constant endeavor is made to keep the life both of individuals
and of the school as a whole upon the highest possible plane. All
classes in the Seminary are opened with prayer. Students and faculty

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members meet daily in the chapel for a brief worship service, at
which time a message is usually brought by a faculty member or by
some visiting speaker. Other gatherings for worship are often con-
ducted by the students themselves and meetings of prayer groups are
held at frequent intervals.

On Thursday evenings the faculty and the students meet in the
chapel for regular preaching services conducted by the students.
Following this service the entire group retires to another room
where, as a part of the student's training in homiletics and public
speaking, faculty members offer constructive criticisms and sugges-
tions as to the subject matter, composition, and method of delivery
of the sermons.

During the first three days of each school year it is customary
for a series of devotional messages to be brought to the students by
some minister especially qualified for this task, and this period of
spiritual preparation for the year's work is crowned by a Com-
munion Service which is conducted in the Seminary Chapel early
Sunday morning. Other observances of this Sacrament are held at
frequent intervals during the school year and these rightly hold the
place of preeminence in the devotional and spiritual life of the
campus.

For some years past neighboring churches have very kindly loaned
their own Communion sets for these services, but one of the most
prized gifts received by the institution in years has eliminated all
need of assistance in this respect for the future. Dr. W. M. Mc-
Pheeters has recently presented the Seminary with a beautiful Com-
munion Set and Baptismal Bowl as a memorial to his late beloved
wife, who was for so many years a devoted friend to the students.
The following inscription has been engraved upon the bowl and
upon each piece of the silver service:

Presented to

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

In Memory Of

My Beloved Wife

Emma Gold Morrison McPheeters

W. M. McPheeters

Home Mission Work

In addition to the training which results from observation of others
at work, the churches of Atlanta and the surrounding country offer
many and varied opportunities for mission work. The churches of
the city have well organized Sunday Schools, and young people's

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societies. The students of the Seminary are expected to take an
active part in the work of these church organizations.

A number of the students are engaged by the home mission com-
mittees within easy reach of Atlanta, to supply home mission fields,
and to assist in other forms of Christian work. In this way oppor-
tunity is provided for many students to engage in supply work and
other forms of religious activity, for which a reasonable remuner-
ation is usually provided.

Atlanta Presbytery fosters a vigorous work among the colored
people. This is considered one of the most important features of
its work, and gives opportunity for special training in this field,
which, in the South, constitutes one of our most challenging tasks
and most fruitful opportunities for service.

The Seminary endeavors to cooperate with the Y. M. C. A., Sal-
vation Army, Evangelistic Clubs, and other agencies engaged in
various forms of informal preaching and welfare service in shops,
industrial plants, jails, and elsewhere. As this bulletin goes to press,
arrangements are being made, with the cooperation of the faculty,
for the Society of Missionary Inquiry to hold regular evangelistic
services in a building owned by the Presbytery of Atlanta and located
in a needy part of the city. On certain days of each week students will
engage in personal visitation and evangelism in homes of that sec-
tion, preparatory to the Gospel Service which will be conducted by
them that evening. Such work cannot fail to bring a rich blessing
to the students themselves, and it is hoped that it will result also in
the reclaiming of many lives for Christ.

Preaching by Students

Students of the Senior and Middle classes are permitted to supply
vacant churches, provided absence from the campus does not con-
flict with their Seminary duties. A considerable number of small
churches near Atlanta are thus supplied by members of the upper
classes and real service has been rendered to the Home Mission
Agencies of this section in this way. Except in special cases, mem-
bers of the Junior class are not permitted to undertake regular work.

Ordinarily no student should undertake regular work oftener than
twice a month. Where necessity seems to require that a student en-
gage in full time supply work, the Faculty will consider each case
and decide upon it on its merits.

Physical Culture

Any minister who does not possess a strong, healthy body is tre-
mendously handicapped in his work and can hardly hope to measure
up to the strenuous demands of the modern pastorate. The Seminary,
therefore, encourages all students to take regular exercise. On the

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campus, there are tennis courts, a volley ball court, and a baseball
field. A neighboring golf course, the Forrest Hills Golf Club, has
been kindly allowing students to play free of charge on certain days
of the week, and golfers find an additional advantage in the fact
that the city of Atlanta has several municipal courses. Basketball is
frequently played in the gymnasium of the Decatur Presbyterian
Church, and during the past year the Seminary Five played a
strenuous schedule of games within the County Sunday School
League, of which it was a member. A stronger team is in pros-
pect for next year and it is expected that several games will be
carded with college teams in addition to those played within the
League. The city of Atlanta also offers a splendid opportunity for
competition in tennis with various schools and organizations, and in
years past the Seminary has been represented by some very strong
teams in this sport. The splendid climate of this section and the
equipment of the Seminary make it possible for students to engage
in some form of open-air athletics practically every day.

Dr. James K. Fancher, one of the ablest physicians and diagnosti-
cians of Atlanta, generously gives his service to the student body of
the institution. Dr. Fancher's services have resulted in a marked im-
provement in the health of many of the students, and have actually
saved several to the ministry who otherwise would have been de-
barred by physical disability.

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Anna Church Whitner Memorial Fellowship

This Fellowship was established by Wm. C. Whitner, LL.D., of
Rock Hill, S. C, as a memorial to his mother, who was an earnest,
consecrated, and devoted Christian. Each year the Fellowship is
awarded to some member of the Senior class or of the five preceding
graduating classes. The income from the Fellowship, about $500,
will be used by the Fellow to finance a year's post graduate study
in an approved American or European institution. During the past
six years this Fellowship has been awarded to the following indi-
viduals, who are listed with the names of the institutions at which
their graduate work has been taken:

H. N. Alexander, Princeton Theological Seminary.

S. A. Cartledge, University of Chicago.

I. M. Bagnal, Princeton Theological Seminary.

D. M. Mounger, University of Edinburgh.

T. H. Grafton, Northwestern University.

R. T. Gillespie, Emory University.

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RESIDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Fellowship in Old Testament

This Fellowship may be awarded to a student who will be a mem-
ber of the Senior or graduate class. The Fellow will ordinarily be
expected to do a certain amount of work in giving tests and correct-
ing papers under the direction of the Professor of Old Testament.

Fellowship in New Testament

This Fellowship may be awarded to any college graduate who has
had such thorough preparation in Greek as to fit him for teaching
work in that department and who may be enrolled as a member of
any class at Columbia. The Fellow will be expected to teach regular
classes in Beginners' Greek for the benefit of students who have not
studied this language in college, or to do other work under the Pro-
fessor of New Testament.

Fellowship in English Bible

This Fellowship may be awarded to any college graduate of out-
standing ability who will be a member of any of the classes at
Columbia. The Fellow will be expected to give some instruction in
introductory English Bible or do other work under the direction of
the Professor of English Bible.

All resident Fellowships provide the Fellows with room, board, and
tuition. The cash stipend which is paid in addition varies in accord-
ance with the duties required of the Fellow, but is in all cases suffi-
ciently generous to be of very great assistance to the successful ap-
plicant.

The work required of a Fellow will not interfere with his regular
studies.

Applications for all Fellowships should be made to the President
before February 15th on blanks which will be furnished by the of-
fice. The awards will be made about March 1st. A student may
apply for more than one Fellowship at a time but can be awarded
only one. The Faculty is under no obligation to award any Fellow-
ship unless at least one applicant has outstanding qualifications for
the position, and a fellowship may be withheld in any year when the
services of an assistant are not required in the Department of Fellow-
ship. The faculty also reserves the right to divert the Fellowships
from their respective departments in any given year and to use the
stipend available to provide a temporary Fellowship in some other
field of study for which a student has shown a special aptitude.

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Wilds Book Prize

Louis T. Wilds, Esq., a ruling elder of the First Presbyterian
Church, Columbia, S. C, has given the Seminary the sum of five
hundred dollars, to provide an annual book prize. At the close of
each session the proceeds of the gift are invested in books for a stu-
dent selected by the Faculty because of distinction in his academic
work. This prize was awarded last year to Mr. Bonneau Harris Dick-
son of Decatur, Ga.

EXTENSION WORK BY THE FACULTY

Evangelistic Services

Since the removal of the Seminary the faculty members have been
engaged in Atlanta and throughout the South, in practically every
form of service required of a minister. They preach; administer the
sacraments for vacant churches; teach Bible classes; conduct classes
in schools of Missions, teacher training schools, and young people's
conferences; attend other conferences of various kinds; address
Synods, Presbyteries, Young People's Conferences, Men's Clubs and
speak to almost every variety of civic and social club on a wide
range of topics.

During the present period of renewed emphasis on evangelism
.nroughout our Assembly, this group has offered not only to conduct
special services wherever possible but to supply free of charge the
pulpits of ministers who are away conducting such services else-
where. In addition to supplying pulpits in accordance with this
agreement, practically all members of the faculty have conducted
either two or three evangelistic meetings during the past year.

Columbia Seminary Extension School

During the past winter the members of the Seminary faculty
gave their services to make possible a new venture in adult Re-
ligious Education which seems to offer great possibilities for future
development. Lnder the auspices of the Presbyterian Ministers' As-
sociation and the Presbyterian Sunday School Superintendents' As-
sociation of Atlanta, an extension school was conducted for ten weeks
in the Church School Building of the North Avenue Presbyterian
Church. A total of seven courses was offered during the first year
of this school and more than two hundred officers, Sunday School
teachers, and workers of Atlanta churches were enrolled for study in
them. Each class met for two hours each week, and credit for work
done was given both by our Committee of Religious Education in
Richmond and by our Department of Woman's Work. Seventy-five

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of the students enrolled received certificates or diplomas for the
successful completion of all required work in their courses.

The work of this school was received with great favor by both
ministers and laymen of the Atlanta churches, and plans are already
being made for the holding of a similar session next winter. It
now seems likely that this instruction will become a regular feature
of the Seminary's service and an annual feature of the program of
Presbyterianism in Atlanta.

alumni association

The Columbia Seminary Alumni Association holds its annual
meeting at a luncheon in the Seminary dining room on Tuesday of
Commencement Week. For the past two years the efficient president
of this organization has been Rev. Sam Burney Hay, Pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Auburn, Ala.

Although the Alumni of Columbia Seminary have always consti-
tuted a most loyal group, and though the Association has served a
useful purpose in renewing contacts between the instituion and its
sons through the years, there has previously been no central office
through which the work of this organization could be actively
pressed. A great forward step in this particular has been taken
during the past year in the appointment of Mr. Eugene Daniel, a
student in the Seminary, as Alumni Secretary, and the setting up
of an Alumni Office on the campus. Mr. Daniel, who is a graduate
of Georgia Tech, has had useful experience in the alumni office of
that institution, and is well qualified for the position which he will
hold during the next two years. It is his intention to provide more
adequate files and records for the alumni work, to encourage class
reunions and other alumni gatherings, and to prepare items of inter-
est for publication in an annual alumni bulletin. In order that this
work may be conducted most effectively, however, it will be neces-
sary that it have the loyal support of all Columbia graduates and
the institution requests whole-hearted cooperation with Mr. Daniel
as he undertakes his task.

The Alumni Luncheon and meeting for 1934 will be held on Tues-
day, May 15th, at 1:00 P. M. and it is hoped that an unusually large
group will be present. The annual Columbia Seminary Banquet at
the General Assembly will be held this vear in the Alba Hotel, Mon-
treal, N. C, at 6:00 P. M. on Friday," May 25th.

GRADUATING CLASS OF 1933
The Degree of Bachelor of Divinity

Bonneau Harris Dickson, A.B South Carolina

Carlyle Devon Floyd, A.B South Carolina

Richard Thomas Gillespie, A.B Georgia

Alton Henley Glasure, A.B Georgia

William James Hazelwood, A.B South Carolina

Walter Harvell Jackson, A.B South Carolina

Herbert Ellis Kann, A.B Pennsylvania

Rassie D. Littleton, B.S Louisiana

J. Vernon McGee, A.B Tennessee

John Wilbur McQueen, A.B South Carolina

John W. Melton, Jr., B.S Georgia

Stanford Parnell, A.B Louisiana

Henry Edward Russell, A.B Georgia

John Raymond Smith, A.B Virginia

James Grafton Spencer, A.B Mississippi

Fred Arthur Stroud, A.B Illinois

David Lorenzo Wood, A.B Georgia

Certificates Without Graduation

Millard Dixon Agerton Georgia

Jefferson Kirksey Aiken South Carolina

John Moody McNair Alabama

Warren Niles Potts Mississippi

Kenneth Mackenzie Stewart . Florida

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ROLL OF STUDENTS 1933-1934

Senior Class

Name
William Niles Bashaw, A.B.
University of Florida

John Butt Dickson, A.B.
Gettysburg College

George Allen Fleece, A.B.

Washington and Lee University

Jack Guy Hand

Davidson College

Erskine Lewis Jackson, A.B.
Presbyterian College

Charles Logan Landrum, A.B.
Atlantic Christian College
Union Theological Seminary

James Erskine Love, A.B.*
Davidson College

William Hoyt Pruiti, A.B.

Presbyterian College

Elliott Richard Rhodes, A.R
Presbyterian College

George Lafayette Riddle, A.B.
Presbyterian College

Carroll Walker Sessions, A.B.
Presbyterian College

John Mecklin Simpson, B.S.
King College

Laurence Williams, LL.B.

Washington and Lee University

Residence
Gainesville, Fla.

Presbytery
Suwannee

Middle Class

Gettysburg, Pa. Carlisle (U. S. A.)

Louisville, Ky. Louisville

Charlotte, N. C. Mecklenburg

Marion, Ala. Tuscaloosa

Kenly, N. C. Granville

Huntersville, N. C. Mecklenburg

Anderson, S. C. Piedmont

Lake City, S. C. Harmony

Clover, S. C. Bethel

McClellanville, S. C. Charleston

Winona, Miss. Central Miss.

Jacksonville, Fla. Suwannee

Name
William Adolphus James -
Moody Bible Institute

Clarence Limuel Letson, A.B.
Erskine College

William Massey Mclnnis, A.B.

Presbyterian College

Malcolm Cook McMillan*
Southwestern

George Thomas Preer, A.B., A.M.
Davidson College
Brown University
University of Virginia

Henry Seymour Robinson, A.B.
Davidson College

Stephen Jamison Sloop, A.B.
Columbia Bible College

Robert McNair Smith, B.S.
Centenary College

Charles Conner West, A.B.
Presbyterian College

Edgar Bert Wilkinson, B.S.
Davidson College

^Withdrew.

Residence Presbytery

Columbia, S. C. Congaree

Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta

Red Springs, N. C. Pee Dee

Stockton, Ala. Mobile

Columbus, Ga. Macon

Lincolnton. N. C. Kings Mountain

Morganton, N. C. Concord

Shreveport, La. Red River

Macon, Ga. Macon

Jacksonville, Fla. Suwannee

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Junior Class

Name

David Eugene Boozer, A.B.
Newberry College

Residence

Newberry, S. C.

Presbytery
South Carolina

James Boyce Bradley

Erskine College

Clinton, S. C.

South Carolina

Homer Stevens Chapman

Lincoln Memorial University
University of Georgia

Covington, Ga.

Atlanta

Llewellyn Brooks Colquitt, A.B.
Davidson College

Columbus, Ga.

Macon

John Dangremond Cotts, A.B.
Hope College

Holland, Mich.

Atlanta

Eugene Lewis Daniel, B.S.
Georgia Tech

Atlanta, Ga.

Atlanta

William McLeod Frampton, Jr.
Presbyterian College

Charleston, S. C.

Charleston

Kenneth Littlejohn Hamilton, B.S.
Presbyterian College

Spartanburg, S. C.

Enoree

Robert Spencer Hough, A.B.
Millsaps College

Jackson, Miss.

Central Miss.

John Robert Howard, B.S.
Davidson College

Atlanta, Ga.

Atlanta

Charlton Dobyns Hutton, A.B.

Millsaps College

Jackson, Miss.

Central Miss.

Robert Morrison Lemly, A.B.
Presbyterian College
University of Chattanooga

Jackson, Miss.

Central Miss.

Freeman Benson Parker, A.B.
Presbyterian College

Macon, Ga.

Macon

Joseph Kenton Parker, Jr., A.B.
Davidson College

Mt. Mourne, N. C.

Concord

Claude Gillespie Pepper, Jr., A.B.
Presbyterian College

Hamlet, N. C.

Mecklenburg

John Edwards Richards. A.B.
Davidson College

Liberty Hill, S. C.

Bethel

Charles Chamberlain Shafe
South Georgia Teachers College

Atlanta, Ga.

Atlanta

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Graduate Students

Name
Rev. Claude H. Pritchard, B.S.

M.S.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Union Theological Seminary

Rev. Richard F. Simpson, A.B., B.D.
University of South Carolina
Columbia Theological Seminary

Residence
B.D. Atlanta, Ga.

Decatur, Ga.

Presbytery
Atlanta

Macon

Name
Rev. B. L. Bond
Rev. Roy Donaldson
Rev. J. M. Hendley
Rev. D. A. Hyde
Rev. W. H. Jackson
Rev. Peter Marshall
Marvin Thrasher Murphy
Dr. J. Fairman Preston
Mrs. J. Fairman Preston
Miss Louise Miller

Special Students

Residence

Presbytery

Avondale Estates, Ga.

Baptist

Atlanta, Ga.

Baptist

East Point, Ga.

Baptist

Ensley, Ala.

Birmingham

Stockbridge, Ga.

Atlanta

Atlanta, Ga.

Atlanta

Chattanooga, Tenn. Chatt. (U.S.A.)
Korea Enoree

Korea
Korea

STUDENT'S ROOM

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Lecturers on the Thomas Smyth Foundation

1911 Francis Landey Patton, D.D., LL.D., Princeton, New Jersey. Subject:

The Theistic View of the World.

1912 Casper Rene Gregory, D.D., LL.D., University of Leipsic, Germany. Sub-

ject: Theological Movements in Germany During the Nineteenth
Century.

1913 Robert E. Speer, LL.D., New York City. Subject: Some Missionary

Problems Illustrated in the Lives of Great Missionary Leaders.

1914 Robert A. Webb, D.D., LL.D., Louisville, Kentucky. Subject: The

Doctrine of the Christian Hope.

1915 William Hoge Marquess, D.D., LL.D., New York City. Subject: The

Period from Abraham to Joshua as Illustrated by the Results of
Archaeological Discovery.

1916 J. Campbell White, A.M., LL.D., Wooster, Ohio. Subject: Missions and

Leadership.

1917 W. S. Plumer Bryan, D.D., Chicago, Illinois. Subject: The Grace of God.

1918 Benjamin B. Warfield, D.D., LL.D., Princeton, New Jersey. Subject:

Counterfeit Miracles.

1919 Francis Landey Patton, D.D., LL.D., Princeton, New Jersey. Subject:

Christianity and the Modern Man.

1920 A. H. McKinney, D.D., New York City. Subject: Guiding Girls to

Christian Womanhood.

1921 Louis Matthews Sweet, S.T.D., Ph.D., New York. Subject: The Origin

and Destiny of Man in the Light of Scripture and Modern Thought.
1923 J. Sprole Lyons, D.D., Atlanta, Georgia. Subject: Sermonic Sources.
1923 L. E. McNair, D.D., Jacksonville, Florida. Subject: Passion in Preaching.
1923 W. McF. Alexander, D.D., New Orleans, Louisiana. Subject: The Man

and His Message.
1923 J. B. Hutton, D.D., Jackson, Miss. Subject: Regulative Ideas in

Preaching.
1923 James I. Vance, D.D., Nashville, Tenn. Subject: Sermonizing.

1923 Dunbar H. Ogden, D.D., Mobile, Ala. Subject: The House in Which

the Minister Lives.

1924 Egbert W. Smith, D.D., Nashville, Tenn. Subject: The Call of the

Mission Field.

1925 A. M. Fraser. D.D., Staunton, Virginia. Subject: Church Unity.

1926 Samuel L. Morris, D.D., Atlanta, Georgia. Subject: The Fact of

Christianity.

1927 J. Gresham Machen, D.D., Princeton, New Jersey. Subject: The Virgin

Birth.

1928 Charles R. Erdman. D.D., Princeton, New Jersey. Subject: The Life

of D. L. Moody.

1929 William T. Ellis. Swarthmore, Pa. Subject: Explorations and Ad-

ventures in Bible Lands.

1930 Wm. C. Covert, D.D., LL.D., Philadelphia, Pa. Subject: Worship and

Spiritual Culture.

1931 W. P. Paterson, D.D., LL.D., Edinburgh, Scotland. Subject: The

Christian Interpretation of History.

1932 Melvin Grove Kyle. D.D.. LL.D., Louisville. Ky. Subject: In the Foot-

steps of Bible Characters.

1933 W. Taliaferro Thompson, D.D., Subject: The Psychology of Christian

Growth.

1934 Frazer Hood, Ph.D., Litt.D., Davidson, N. C. Subject: The Christian's

Faith.

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APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION

Name

Home address

Present address

Are you under care of Presbytery? If so, which?

Schools attended Years Graduate? Degree

How many years have you taken Greek? Where?

What Greek works have you read?

Average grade.

Your pastor's name and address

Date of birth Place of birth

Are you married? Have you any children?

Are you willing to subscribe to the following pledge?

"Deeply impressed with a sense of the importance of improving
in knowledge, prudence and piety, in my preparation for the gospel
ministry, I solemnly promise, in a reliance on divine grace, if ad-
mitted as a student, that I will faithfully and diligently attend on all
the instructions of this Seminary, and that I will conscientiously and
vigilantly observe all the rules and regulations specified in the plan
for its instruction and government ,so far as the same relates to the
students; an dthat I will obey all the lawful requisitions, and readily
yield to all the wholesome admonitions of the professors and direc-
tors of the Seminary while I shall continue a member of it."

Signature

Note: This application may be accompanied by a letter setting forth
any additional facts.

INDEX

Academic Awards 41, 43

Admission and Graduation 14

Alumni Association 44

Application for Admission 50

Board 16

Board of Directors 5

Calendar 3-4

Certificates 16

College Preparation 14

Courses of Study 22-32

General Statement 22

Group I Biblical Theology 22-27

Group II Historical Theology 27-28

Group III Systematic Theology__29-30

Group IV Practical Theology 30-32

Credentials 14

Cultural Advantages 13

Degrees 15, 18, 19

Outline of Courses for Degree

of B.D 18

Requirements for Degree

of Th.M 18, 19

Directions for Reaching

Seminary (Inside back cover)

English Course 18

Examinations 19

Expenses 16, 17

Extension Work by Faculty 43, 44

Evangelistic Services 43

Columbia Seminary Extension

School 43, 44

Faculty Members and Officers 7, 8

Fees 16

Fellowships 41, 42

Anna Church Whitner Memorial 41

Resident 42

Financial Aid 17

Grades and Distinctions 19, 20

Graduating Class 1933 45

Grounds and Buildings 12, 13

Historic Columbia 9-11

Home Mission Work 38, 39

Instruction 11, 12

Lectures on Smyth Foundation 49

Librarians 33

Library 33

Opportunities for Observing

Religious Work 13

Pledge 15, 16

Physical Culture 39, 41

Preaching by Students 39

Quartette 37

Religious Exercises 37, 38

Reports to Presbyteries 16

Roll of Students 46-48

Schedule 20, 21

Seminary, The 9-13

Scholarships 17

Smyth Lecture Foundation 35

Smyth Library Fund 33

Society of Missionary Inquiry 35

Student Activities 35-41

Students from Other Seminaries 15

Visiting Speakers and Lecturers 6

Wilds Book Prize 43

DIRECTIONS FOR REACHING THE SEMINARY

The campus of the Seminary is located in the southeast section of
Decatur, Ga., about one-half mile from the street car line. Students
arriving over the Georgia Railroad should purchase tickets and check
their trunks to Decatur.

Students coming over roads other than the Georgia Railroad
should buy their tickets and check their trunks to Atlanta. Upon ar-
rival at the station in Atlanta, students may phone to the Seminary
to receive instructions how to reach the Seminary, or they may ask
the clerk at either the Information or the Traveler's Aid desk, how to
reach the North Decatur street car. Trunk checks should be brought
to the Seminary where arrangements will be made for transfer of
trunks and other baggage.

From all stations it is better to take the North Decatur car line.
In reaching this line it will be necessary to transfer once, except from
the Union Station, where the car passes within a short distance.

Upon arrival in Decatur, leave the street car at Candler Street,
where this street crosses the Georgia Railroad at the depot. If notice
of arrival in Atlanta has not already been given, call the Seminary
from some nearby telephone, and await the arrival of a car which
will be sent immediately from the Seminary.

Students who travel by bus may buy their tickets to Decatur, where
they will alight near the center of the city and can easily get in touch
with the Seminary by telephone.