Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin: Course Catalog 1926-1927 Announcements 1927-1928, 20, number 4, April 1927

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Vol. XX April, 1927 No. 4

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Columbia
Theological Seminary

Founded December 15th, 1828
Lexington, Georgia, 1828-1830
Columbia, South Carolina, 1830-1927
Opens in Atlanta September 14th, 1927

Announcements

1927-1928

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Calendar

Spring Term, 1927

Tuesday, February 8th Second Term begins.
Tuesday, April 19th Final examinations begin.
Sunday, May 1st, 11:30 A. M. Baccalaureate Sermon
By Rev. S. H. Hay, D.D.
8:30 P. M. Missionary Sermon
By Rev. C. Darby Fulton, D.D.
Tuesday, May 3rd, 8:00 P. M. Annual meeting of the
Board of Directors.
Inauguration of the President,
Richard T. Oxillespie, D.D., LL.D.
Wednesday, May 4th, 8:30 P. M. Commencement Exercises.
Graduating Address

By Rev. C. M. Richards, D.D.
Conferring of Degrees and presentation of
Certificates.

Session 1927-1928

Opens in Atlanta September 14th, 1927.

Fall Quarter

Wednesday, September 14th, 10:00 A. M. Session begins.

Address by the President.

Matriculation of Students.
Thursday, November 24th Thanksgiving Day.
Tuesday, November 29th Examinations begin.

Winter Quarter

Tuesday, December 6th Winter quarter begins.
Thursday, December 22nd Christmas vacation begins.
Tuesday, January 3rd Christmas vacation ends.
Tuesday, February 28th Examinations begin.

Spring Quarter

Tuesday, March 6th Spring quarter begins.
Tuesday, May 15-th Examinations begin.

Sunday, May 20th Celebration of the Centennial begins with the
Baccalaureate Sermon.

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Permanent Address

After August l, 1927

Mail, Express and Freight

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Board of Directors

Officers

John T. Brantley, Esq., President

Alexander Sprunt. D.D., Vice President

Frank K. Sims, D.D., Secretary

Class Going Out 1927

L. L. Barr, Esq Greenville, S. C.

C. M. Boyd, D.D Tuscaloosa, Ala.

J. Buxow Campbell, Esq Atlanta. Ga.

C. H. Ferran, D.D Orlando, Fla.

W. A. Hafner, B.D Gaffney, S. C.

J. B. Hutton, D.D Jackson, Miss.

J. Sprole Lyons. D.D Atlanta, Ga.

Class Going Out 1928

D. J. Blackwell. B.D Quincy, Fla

D. M. Douglas. D.D Columbia, S. C.

C. W. Grafton. D.D Union Church, Miss.

E. L. Hill, D.D Athens, Ga.

A. G. Irons, B.D Birmingham, Ala.

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

F. K. Sims, D.D Dalton. Ga.

Class Going Out 1929

Jno. D. Baker, Esq Jacksonville, Fla.

Jno. T. Brantley, Esq Blackshear, Ga.

S. H. Edmunds, Litt.D Sumter. S. C.

S. E. Hodges, D.D Anniston, Ala.

R. F. Kimmons, Esq Water Valley. Miss.

A. L. Patterson. D.D Savannah, Ga.

Alexander Sprunt. D.D Charleston, S. C.

Executive Committee

J. Bulow Campbell. Chairman
F. K. Sims, Secretary

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

Investing Committee

J. Bulow Campbell. Chairman J. J. Gcodrum

C. H. Baldwin J. S. Kennedy

W. D. Beaty D. W. Robinson

J. C. Copeland H. Lane Young

J. S. Kennedy, Atlanta. Ga Treasurer

C. H. Baldwin, Columbia, S. C Assistant Treasurer

F. Pauline Barton, Decatur, Ga Bursar

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Faculty

Rev. Richard T. Gillespie, D.D., LL.D.,

President of the Seminary.
Rev. William M. McPheeters, D.D., LL.D.,

Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis and Apolo-
getics.
Rev. Melton Clark, D.D.,

Professor of the English Bible, Religious Education and Pastoral
Theology.
Rev. Edgar D. Kerr, D.D.,

Professor of Hebrew and Cognate Languages.
Rev. James Benjamin Green, D.D.,

Professor of Systematic Theology, Christian Ethics and Homiletics.
Rev. William C. Robinson, S.T.M.,

Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Church Polity and Missions.
(On leave of absence 1926-1927.)
Rev. Hunter B. Blakely, Th.D,

Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis.
(On leave of absence 1927-1928.)
Rev. Charles C. McNeill, D.D.,

Acting Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Church Polity and
Missions for 1926-1927.
Rev. H. Waddell Pratt, D.D.,

Acting Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis for
1926-1927.
Samuel A. Cartledge, A.B., M.A.,

Instructor in Introductory Greek.
J. McDowell Richards, B.A., M.A.,

Instructor in Old Testament Literature and Exegesis.
Remus L. Alexander, A.B.,

Physical Director.

Perkins Professorship of Natural Science in connection with Revelation
and Christian Apologetics.

(The duties of this chair are distributed among the members
of the Faculty.)

Country Church Lecturer, 1927-1928 Rev. H. W. McLaughlin, D.D.
Smyth Lecturer, 1926-1927 Rev. J. Gresham Machen, D.D.
Smyth Lecturer, 1927-1928 Rev. Chas. R. Erdman, D.D.

Officers of the Faculty

Chairman Richard T. Gillespie

Recording Secretary Chas. C. McNeill

Librarian James B. GrEEn

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Roll of Students

Senior Class

Name Residence

Miss.

Robert Emmett Alsworth, Ph.G. Purvis

Chickasaw College

Joseph Watts Conyers,
Clemson College

Robert Plympton Lovell, Jr.,

Timmonsville, S. C.

Presbytery

Meridian
Pee Dee

Ph.B.,

Umory University

Savannah, Ga.

Savannah

Francis Borel Mayes, A.B.,

Presbyterian College

Winnsboro, S. C.

Congaree

Edgar Donald McMahan, A.B..

Presbyterian College

Piedmont, S. C.

Piedmont

John Benson Sloan, Jr., A.B.

Davidson College

Ninety Six, S. C.

South Carolina

Seniors, 6.

Middle Class

Name

Residence

Presbytery

Walter Daniel Arnold,

University of Georgia

Philomath, Ga.

Augusta

Robert Duncan Bass, A.B.,

University of South Carolina

Gresham, S. C.

Congaree

Eugene Griffin Beckman. A.B.,

Presbyterian College

McClellanville, S. C.

Charleston

Charles Cureton, A.B.,

Furman University

Pickens, S. C.

Piedmont

William Harper Dendy, A.B.,
Presbyterian College

Hartwell, Ga.

Athens

Charles Grenville T. Hamilton,
A.B.,

Berea College

Princeton Theological Seminary

Berea, Ky.

Lehigh

Angelo James Luck, A.B., Asheville, N. C.

College of the Immaculate Conception

Asheville

Malcolm Alexander Macdonald,
A.B.,

Presbyterian College

Blackstock, S. C.

Bethel

Angus Guy Mclnnis, A.B.,

Leakesville, Miss.

Meridian

Southwestern

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Name
Claude Mcintosh

Davidson College

University of South Carolina

Ralph Leon McRaney, A.B.

Southwestern

Middle Class (Continued)

Residence

Charlotte, N. C.

Collins, Miss.
Bishopville, S. C.
Mize, Miss.

Robert White Montgomery

Presbyterian College

Arthur Monroe Moore

State Teachers College of Mississippi

Rufus William Oakey, Forest, Miss.

Millsaps College

James McDowell Richards,

B.A., M.A., Davidson, N. C.

Davidson College
Princeton University
Oxford University

Eugene Thomson Wilson, A.B., Clinton, S. C.

Presbyterian College

Presbytery

Mecklenburg

Meridian

Harmony

Meridian

Central Mississippi

Concord
South Carolina

Middlers, 16.

Name

Junior Class

Residence

Remus Legette Alexander, A.B., Bay Springs, Miss.

Southwestern

Presbytery

Meridian

Robert James Allen, B.S.,

Citadel

Melrose Selkirk Avery,
Georgia Tech

John Walter Bracey, A.B.,

Davidson College

Harry Haywood Bryan, A.B.,

University of South Carolina
Jasper William Bryson,

University of South Carolina

LeRoy Perry Burney, A.B.,
Davidson College

Samuel Antoine Cartledge,
A.B., M.A..

University of Georgia

William Creed Cooper,

Alabama Tech

Forrest Treadwell Franklin, A.I

Davidson College

Joseph Marion Garrison, A.B., Covington, Ga
Davidson College

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Greeleyville, S. C. Upper South

Carolina Conference

Miami, Fla.

Florida

Rowland, N. C.

Fayetteville

Birmingham, Ala.

Birmingham

Owings, S. C.

South Carolina

Clarkton, X. C.

Wilmington

Athens, Ga.

Athens

East Point, Ga.

Atlanta

Lithonia, Ga.

Atlanta

Covington, Ga.

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Winder, Ga.

Athens

Manning, S. C.

Harmony

Savannah, Ga.

Savannah

Columbia, S. C

Carol:

Upper South
ina Conference

Edwards, Miss. Central Mississippi

Junior Class (Continued)

Name Residence Presbytery

Vance Asbury Gordon, Huntsville, Ala. Huntsville

Atlanta Theological Seminary

Charles Judson Harris,

Presbyterian College

Stephen Thomas Harvin,

Presbyterian College
University of South Carolina

Harry Keller Holland, A.B.,

Presbyterian College

Adlai Cornwell Holler,
A.B., LL.B.,

Wofford College

University of South Carolina

Harvard University

William Bernard Hooker,

Hampden-Sidney College

Donald Achilles Hyde,
Hal Cooper Keller,

University of South Carolina
Presbyterian College

Alexander George Kennedy,
B.S., D.D.S.,

Presbyterian College
Atlanta Dental College

Joseph Samuel Mansfield,

Cornell University
King College

Herman Oliver Marlowe,

Presbyterian College

John Swilling McFall, Jr., A.B.,

Presbyterian College

William Lasater McLeod, Ph.B.,
Elon College

Chester Franklin Monk, A.B.,
Davidson College

Ansley Cunningham Moore,
Ph.B.,

Emory University

Joseph Lee Plexico, A.B.,

Presbyterian College

Marcus Brown Prince, Jr., A.B.

Presbyterian College

Oscar Emanuel Sanden,

Louisiana State University
Bible Institute of Los Angeles
N. Park College

Columbia, S. C.
Savannah, Ga.

Blackstock, S. C.

Seville, Ga.

Conway, S. C.
Anderson, S. C.
Broadway, N. C.
Moultrie, Ga.

Decatur, Ga.
McConnellsville,
Lincolnton, Ga.
Norwood, La.

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Congaree
Savannah

Bethel

Macon

Pee Dee

Piedmont

Fayetteville
Southwest Georgia

s. c.

Atlanta

Bethel

Piedmont

Louisiana

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Junior Class (Continued)

Name Residence Presbytery-

Kenneth Corvin Seawright, A.B., Due West, S. C. South Carolina

Erskine College

John Preston Simmons, A.B., Long Beach, Miss. Meridian

Southwestern

Alexander Mclhvain Simpson,

A.B., Waxhaw, N. C. Bethel

Presbyterian College

John David Simpson, A.B., Columbia, S. C. Congaree

University of South Carolina

William Clarence Sistar, A.B., Clinton, S. C. South Carolina

Presbyterian College

Charles Lawrence Smith, A.B., Andrews, S. C. Pee Dee

Presbyterian College

Thomas A. Smith, M.D., Midland, X. C.

Davidson College

Medical College of Virginia

Thomas Francis Wallace. A.B., Charlotte, N. C. Mecklenburg

Presbyterian College

Frank Dudley Wood,* Chattanooga. Tenn. Knoxville

University of Chattanooga

Maurice Clark Yeargan, A.B., Roanoke, Ala. Mecklenburg

Davidson College
Juniors, 39. * Withdrew after six weeks.

Special Students

Walter Montgomery Crofton,

A.B., Memphis, Tenn. Congaree

Rice Institute

Union Theological Seminary

University of South Carolina

Thomas McLelland Stevenson,

A.B., LL.B., Lowrys. S. C. Bethel

Davidson College

University of South Carolina

Special Students, 2.

General Summary-
Seniors 6

Middlers 16

Juniors 39

Specials 2

Total 63

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Educational Institutions Represented

Alabama Tech 1

Atlanta Dental College 1

Atlanta Theological Seminary 1

Berea College 1

Bible Institute of Los Angeles 1

Chickasaw College 1

Clemson College 1

Citadel 1

College of Immaculate Con-
ception 1

Cornell University 1

Davidson College 11

Elon College 1

Emory University 2

Erskine College 1

Furman University 1

Georgia Tech 1

Hampton-Sidney College 1

Harvard University 1

King College 1

Medical College of Virginia.. 1

Millsaps College 1

N. Park College 1

Oxford University 1

Presbyterian College 20

Princeton Theological Sem-
inary 1

Princeton University 1

Rice Institute 1

Southwestern 4

State Teachers College of

Mississippi 1

Union Theological Seminary. . 1

University of Chattanooga . . 1

University of Georgia 2

University of Louisiana 1

University of South Carolina. . 10

Wofford College 1

Number of Educational Institutions Represented 35

Presbyteries Represented

Asheville
Athens .
Atlanta
Augusta

Bethel 5

Birmingham 1

Central Mississippi 2

Charleston 1

Concord 1

Congaree 5

Fayetteville 2

Florida 1

Harmony 2

Huntsville

Knoxville

Lehigh

Louisiana

Macon

Mecklenburg 3

Meridian 6

Pee Dee 3

Piedmont 4

Savannah 3

South Carolina 5

Southwest Georgia 1

Wilmington 1

Number of Presbyteries Represented

26

States Represented

Alabama 3

Florida 1

Georgia 14

Kentucky 1

Louisiana 1

Mississippi 8

North Carolina 9

South Carolina 24

Tennessee 2

Number of States Represented 9

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Graduating Class, 1 926

The Degree of Bachelor of Divinity

Marshall Coleman Dendy, A.B., B.D., South Carolina.
William Salter Porter, Jr., A.B., B.D., South Carolina.

Certificate of Graduation in all Departments of Instruction,
Without Degree

Bob Shiver Hodges, Jr., South Carolina.

Certificates Without Graduation

Samuel Pressly Bowles, Florida.

John Arthur Flanagan, A.B., South Carolina

Benjamin Alford Meeks. Arkansas.

John Coffee Neville, A.B., South Carolina.

William Simpson Scott, A.B., South Carolina.

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Description of the Courses of Study

I. Hebrew and Cognate Languages

Dr. Kerr

The Church has always emphasized the importance of the
original 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 en-
deavors to fit students for the ministry intelligently and effec-
tively to use the original languages in interpreting the Sacred
Oracles.

Regular Hebrew Course

Junior Year '

Fall Quarter. The class begins the study of the language
by the inductive method. Orthography, etymology, and syntax
are taught from the Hebrew text of Genesis. Note books are
used for exercises in the inflectional forms of the language,
in translation, and in translation from English into Hebrew.

Textbooks : Harper's Hebrew Method and Manual and
Harper's Elements of Hebrew (both revised by J. M. P.
Smith).

Winter Quarter. Continues the 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 the fall quarter.

Spring Quarter. Hebrew reading, chiefly from Exodus
and Deuteronomy, with special reference to vocabulary 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.

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I. Hebrew and Cognate Languages (Continued)

Optional Courses

Optional, non-credit courses in this department will be given
to qualified students by arrangement with the professor, the
number of hours and the particular nature of the courses
to be determined by the needs and opportunities of the students.

The following courses are offered :

(a) Advanced Hebrew Syntax.

(b) Hebrew Text Criticism.

(c) Biblical Aramaic.

(d) Elementary Arabic.

II. Old Testament Literature and Exegesis
Dr. McPhkkters
Middle Year
Instruction will be by lecture, textbook, parallel reading,
and theses.

Fall Quarter. The aim of the work during the first part of
this quarter is to establish in the mind of the student a well-
grounded conviction that there is a science of interpretation ;
to give him a clear conception of its "architectonic principle"
and constituent parts, the nature of each part, and its relation
to the others ; and to help him to form and cultivate those
habits that are an essential condition of any real exegesis.
During the latter part of the quarter the subject of Propae-
dutic as currently and as correctly conceived will engage the
attention of the class, and its vital importance pointed out;
and a beginning made in exegetical praxis.

Winter Quarter. During the first part of this quarter the
class will be occupied with exegetical praxis, and in connection
with it will be instructed in the nature and use of the apparatus
of the exegete. During the latter part of the quarter an effort
will be made to acquaint the class with our Lord's principles
and methods as an interpreter.

Spring Quarter. The matters engaging the attention of
the class during this quarter will be the Canon, Prophecy, and
the Historical and Literary Criticism of the Old Testament.

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III. New Testament Literature and Exegesis

Dr. Blakki^y
(On leave of absence, 1927-1928)

Dr. Kerr

(Acting Professor, 1927-1928)
Mr. Carti^dge

Literature and Exegesis

The courses of study in this department presuppose a work-
ing knowledge of New Testament Greek. No student will be
admitted to these courses who has not acquired a fair knowledge
of the grammatical forms and syntax of the Greek language.
Students without knowledge of Greek must take one or both
of the preparatory courses in Greek before matriculating in this
department.

In the reorganization of the schedule which is published
with this number of the catalogue it develops that the only
course in New Testament Literature and Exegesis which will
be given is one quarter, which is required of the Senior Class
to complete the work of this class in New Testament Literature
and Exegesis. The Middle Class of next year have completed
the work which in the regular schedule is required of the
Middle Class. In the new schedule, the entering class does
not begin the study of New Testament Literature and Exegesis
until the winter quarter of their Middle year. The absence
of Doctor Blakely does not, therefore, interrupt the work in
this department. Doctor Kerr, professor of Hebrew and
Cognate Languages, will teach the course required of the
Senior Class.

Full description of the courses to be offered in this depart-
ment will be prepared by Doctor Blakely, and this description
will be published in the next catalogue.

During the year 19271928 the course given by Doctor Kerr
for the Senior Class, completing the work of the class in this
subject, will be the historical, grammatical, and doctrinal in-
terpretation of the Epistle to the Romans.

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III. New Testament Literature and Exegeses
(Continued)

Introductory Greek

Mr. Cartledge

Beginners Grammar

Fall and Winter Quarters. A course in New Testament
Greek for beginners will be offered to all students of the enter-
ing class who are not prepared for the work of the regular class
in New Testament Literature and Exegesis. The work in this
class will be directed by Mr. Sam A. Cartledge, A.B., A.M.,
University of Georgia. Mr. Cartledge conducted this class
during the year 1926-1927. He has planned to spend the
summer at Chicago University doing graduate work in the
Department of Greek to further prepare himself for the work
of the class.

Reading in New Testament Greek

Spring Quarter. After the beginners' class has completed
the grammar, a second course of readings in New Testament
Greek will be given to complete the preparation of the class.
Opportunity will be given during this second course for stu-
dents who have partial preparation, and for other students who
feel the need of review work in the Greek Language to join the
Class, and to those who wish to refresh themselves on the Greek
Language before taking up the work of the regular class in
Exegesis.

IV. Systematic Theology

Dr. Green

In the reorganized curriculum the study of theology begins
in the spring quarter of the Middle year, and is prosecuted
through the Senior year. Three of the four quarters are de-
voted to the study of the three volumes of Systematic Theology
by Dr. Charles Hodge, one quarter to each volume.

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IV. Systematic Theology (Continued)

Middle Year

Spring -Quarter. In this quarter is studied (1) INTRO-
DUCTION, which embraces such matters as definition;
method; source; the Scriptures; and so forth; (2) THEOL-
OGY PROPER, which is distributed as follows: theism;
anti-theism ; nature and attributes of God ; diety of Christ ;
nature and office-work of the Holy Spirit ; the decree of God ;
the works of God.

Senior Year

Fall Quarter. In this quarter two subjects are considered
(1) Anthropology, which treats of the origin, nature and
original state of man ; the covenant of works ; the fall ; sin ;
free agency. (2) Christology, which covers such sub-topics
as plan of salvation ; covenant of grace ; person and work
of Christ; the estates of Christ.

Winter Quarter. This quarter is given to the study of (1)
of Soteriology in its subdivisions : the order of Christian ex-
perience ; regeneration; faith and repentance; justification;
adoption ; sanctification ; and the means of grace, the Word,
the Sacraments and Prayer. (2) Eschatology, or the Doctrine
of Last Things. Under this head are included such interest-
ing subjects as the immortality of the soul, the state of the soul
immediately after death, the resurrection of the body, the
second coming, future rewards and punishment, hell, and
heaven.

Spring Quarter. In this, the fourth and final quarter of
this course, the standards of our church are examined, the
Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms.
The aim in this part of the course is not only to acquaint the
students with the symbols of our church, but to give them a
rapid and a new view of the most important matters treated in
the earlier quarters of the course.

Throughout this course the method of instruction is by
text-book and lecture, combined with discussion.

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V. Ecclesiastical History, Missions, and Church Polity
Professor Robinson

Christianity in History. Christianity is the philosophy
of History, sub specie aetemitatis.

And Christianity is fundamentally a historic religion ; with
definite historic content, resting on a historic person, indoctri-
nating "first of all" factual information (good news). (1 Cor.
15:1-3.) It has traversed varying currents of thought, civili-
zations, environmental complexes, and has been carried onward
by overtowering personalities. Particular attention is devoted
in this course to the three great civilizations which have ex-
ternally conditioned Christianity in its progress ; and have been
internally upborne by its life. Christianity has been the con-
servator of the worthwhile in every passing civilization and
the vitalizing germ for the new.

Junior Year

Fall Quarter. Christianity in the Graeco-Roman Civiliza-
tion. New life in the old civilization. Preparation for and
influence on Christianity of Roman government and peace,
Greek thought, Mysteries, Jewish diaspora, etc. The conver-
gence of ancient history upon Jesus of Nazareth and the ra-
diating of subsequent history from Him. The origin of
Christian institutions, creed, canon, worship, government in
the ancient Catholic Church. The great question of the
founder of Christianity the Messianic Christology, criticism
of Harnackian adoptionist Christology, the Kurios Christology,
the Logos Christology, the Monarchian Crisis, the Arian
Crisis, Apollinarianism, Nestorianism, Monophysitism, Aph-
thartodoketism, Monothelitism the contrast between the Latin
and the Greek conceptions of the Trinity and the Person of
Christ. The history of dogma in the seven ecumenical coun-
cils. The barbarian invasions and the rising importance of the
Popes in the chaotic condition of Italy. The great Greek and
Latin Fathers the summation of early Christian thought in
Augustine; the transition in him from the study of God to
the study of sin and soteriology ; in what sense Augustine is
the father of mediaeval thought. Monasticism. The split of
the Eastern national churches.

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V. Ecclesiastical History, Missions, and Church Polity
(Continued)

Winter Quarter. Christianity in the Emergency of West-
ern Europe, 800-1648. The course begins with the great
legal conception of the "Holy Roman Empire" one society
with two heads, pope and emperor ; while contrasting with it
as the most important aspect of the living growth of the
centuries is the development of the great nationalities of Europe
out of the chaotic welter of incoherent tribes. Commensurate
with, and in part required by, this national consciousness, a
religious disparateness.

Decadence of Church and civilization ; Cluny-Gregorian re-
form ; monasticism ; crusades ; conflict of popes and emperors
(contrasting attitude of Gregory I and Gregory VII as to im-
perial authority); councils; diets; Avignon and the Great
Schism. Intellectual history, evolution of political thought; the
Aristotelian revival in Scholasticism ; the sacramental system ;
precursors of the Reformation ; "the moderns" from whom
Luther learned and against whose theology he reacted.

The Great Transition Renaissance and Reformation.

The Reformation in its causes, its heroes, its literature; its
birth throes ; its triumphant vindication ; its eternal truths.

Spring Quarter. Christianity in the Modern World
1650-1927. Christianity; in Modern Europe changing
conceptions in philosophy and theology ; scientific revival ;
movements deepening the spiritual life, Jansenism, Pietism,
the Moravians, the Methodist revival. The culmination of
papal claims ; the Anglican High Church movement ; recent
thought in Protestantism.

Missions. Christianity in America. Early French and
Spanish missionary efforts ; religious situation in the colonies ;
the effect of the frontier spirit on Christianity ; the revivals ;
social service ; the distinctive marks of American Christianity.

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V. Ecclesiastical History, Missions, and Church Polity
(Continued)

Christianity in the Orient. The Missionary expansion of
Christendom and its naturalization in the Orient. The new-
fervor with which the Church has responded to the Great
Commission ; and has envisaged a world task and a world
mission. A historic view of the spread of Christianity, in
connection with the great spiritual movements in Christianity.
A comprehensive view of missions and the relation of the
home church thereto. A sympathetic study of the life and
work of the missionary. Special attention will be given to
the work of the Presbyterian Church U. S., both to strengthen
our touch with this work and as an excellent example of the
work of Missions in the world.

Middle Year

Fall Quarter. Presbyterian History and Polity. Presby-
terian Polity will be studied in its historic setting. The fun-
damental polity of the apostolic and sub-apostolic Church ; the
N. T. and Apostolic Fathers studied in the light of recent
theories of Church government (Harnack, Sohm, Hatch,
BatirTol. J. A. Robinson's restatement of Lightfoot) ; the Or-
donnances of Geneva ; Knox's practical Presbyterianism ; Pres-
byterianism dc jure divine under Cartwright and Melville ; the
Westminister Assembly; "the Adopting Act," the charter of
American Presbyterianism (1729) ; the Thornwell-Breckenridge
principles of polity ; the organization of the Southern Presby-
terian Church with its re-emphasis of the architectonic prin-
ciple of Presbyterianism the Headship and Kingship of
Christ alone. The book of polity of the Presbyterian Church
in the U. S. in itself and in comparison with the polity of
the U. P.. U. S. A., and Scotch Presbyterian Churches. Study
of the Presbyterian Churches of Christiandom with notice of
their origin, development, and present conditions.

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VI. Apologetics and Christian Ethics

Dr. McPheeters and Dr. Green

Apologetics

Dr. McPheeters

Senior Year

Spring Quarter. Function of Apologetics ; the present
situation in the field of Apologetics, especially current concep-
tions of God, of nature, of man, and of the Bible, and the origin
of the same. Religion as currently and as correctly conceived.
Miracle as currently and as correctly conceived. Bibliological
Apologetics : the doctrine of Holy Scripture, including reve-
lation and inspiration. The apologetic argument from proph-
ecy.

Lectures, textbook, parallel reading, theses.

Christian Ethics

Dr. Green

Senior Year
Winter Quarter. Christian Ethics is a study of applied
Christianity. Its aim, in part, is to state how the Christian
religion has worked in the past ; and. in part, to give guidance
and direction to men of good-will that they may in the future
live more perfectly together according to Christ ; and so
bring to pass the Kingdom of God. The method is by studying
the historic and progressive revelation and realization of the
Christian Ideal. The application of this method involves a
consideration of the forms and spheres in which the ideal is
becoming real, and also of the duties and dynamics of the
Christian life. The textbook is "Christian Ethics," by New-
man Smyth.

Natural Science in Connection with Revelation and
Christian Apologetics

This chair is vacant for the present. Its field is occupied by
Dr. McPheeters in Apologetics, Dr. Green in Ethics, and Dr.
McPheeters in Introduction and Criticism.

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VII. English Bible

Dr. Clark

The work in this department is designed to guide the student
in the mastery of an effective method of Bible study and ex-
position. The class room work is conducted (1) by assign-
ments given to students for original investigation, and (2) by
lectures.

Junior Year

Winter Quarter. During this quarter the class will make
a careful study of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Hebrews,
using the American Revised Version.

Spring Quarter. As during the winter quarter, the class
will continue its study of the English Bible in Job, Psalms,
Chronicles and The Prophets.

Middle Year

Fall Quarter. During the fall quarter of the middle year
the class will study the Life of Christ, as recorded in the
Gospels. This will be followed by a careful study of the
Book of John.

Winter Quarter. The winter quarter will be devoted to
The Acts of the Apostles and to the Epistles of Paul. With
this quarter the course in English Bible will be concluded.

VIII. Religious Education
Dr. Clark
Senior Year

Spring Quarter. The fundamental task of the religious
educator and the goal of religious education, with a study of
its principles and practice. Embracing a study of the psy-
chology of the pupil and the principles of pedagogy to be
applied by the teacher. The organization and administration of
the Sunday School.

By textbook and lectures.

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IX. Homiletics

Dr. Green

Fall Quarter. The curriculum as rearranged allows more
time for Homiletics. 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 preaching is and
How to do it. The preacher, his call, his message, his person-
ality, 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 department are Broadus' "Preparation and
Delivery of Sermons" and Breed's "Preparing to Preach."

X. Practical Theology

Dr. Clark and Professor Robinson

Pastoral Theology

Dr. Clark

Spring Quarter. The scope and literature of the subject.

The minister as a religious leader. The cure and care of
souls. The departments of pastoral work. The ministers re-
lation to the organization and activities of the Church. The
conducting of public worship.

By textbook and lectures.

Missions

Professor Robinson

The course in Missions has been combined with the course
in Ecclesiastical History and is presented as a part of the
History course. Full description of the course is found under
the department of Ecclesiastical History, Missions and Polity.

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New Schedule Adopted

The Faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary, has adopted
a plan for the reorganization of our courses of study, which
becomes effective September. 1927.

The Former Plan embraces thirty-three calendar weeks dis-
tributed as follows :

To open and close 1 week

Examinations 4 weeks

Holidays 2 weeks

Recitations 26 weeks

Total 33 weeks

Total number recitation hours 1236

The Xew Plan embraces thirty-six weeks distributed as fol-
lows :

To open and close 1 week-
Examinations 3 weeks

Holidays 2 weeks

Recitations 30 weeks

Total 36 weeks

Total number recitation hours 1350

Advantages Secured :

1 A clear summary and evaluation of work required.

2 Elimination of intermittent courses.

3 Sustained interest in subject through continuous study.

4 Elimination of scrap heap impression of former plan.

5 Logical sequence of related subjects.

6 Equal daily distribution of work throughout the year.

7 Opportunity for preparation and review, by unprepared
men in the department of Xew Testament Exegesis.

8 An open Monday, without congestion on other days.

9 Columbia Seminary brought into line with the practice in
many of the best post graduate institutions, and given a
place of distinction among Theological Seminaries.

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10 Gives time and opportunity for supplementary and col-
lateral reading and for proper correlation as a result of
such reading-.

Outline of Courses for the Bachelor of Divinity Degree

Five recitations per weeks required in all courses

Junior Year

Fall Quarter Winter Quarter Spring Quarter

Hebrew Hebrew Hebrew

History History History

Homiletics Eng. Bible Eng. Bible

Middle Year

Fall Quarter Winter Quarter Spring Quarter

O. T. Exegesis O. T. Exegesis O. T. Exegesis

History N. T. Exegesis N. T. Exegesis

Eng. Bible Eng. Bible Theology

Senior Year

Fall Quarter Winter Quarter Spring Quarter

Past'l Theology Ethics Education

N. T. Exegesis N. T. Exegesis Apologetics

Theology Theology Theology

Value of Courses

In Terms of Recitation Hours

Former Plan New Plan

Hebrew 130 150

Old Testament Exegesis 156 150

New Testament Exegesis 208 200

Theology 170 200

History, Missions and Polity 196 200

English Bible 208 200

Homiletics 40 50

Education 26 50

Apologetics 52 50

Ethics 24 50

Pastoral Theology 26 50

Total 1236 1350

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Sequence of Courses

Careful study has been given to the sequence of courses.
The schedule is so arranged that dependent subjects will fol-
low those subjects on which they depend, i.e., Old Testament
Exegesis follows Hebrew. Theology follows the completion,
either wholly or in part, of English Bible, Old Testament Exe-
gesis, and New Testament Exegesis. In fact, under the pro-
posed plan, Theology is a review and resume of the entire
Seminary course, and is a final, systematic statement of the
truth presented through the Seminary course as a whole.
Sequence: of Courses :

I. Hebrew, three quarters, Old Testament Exegesis, three
quarters, Pastoral Theology, Ethics, Apologetics, one
quarter each in the order named.

II. History, four quarters New Testament Exegesis, four
quarters Education, one quarter.

III. Homiletics, one quarter English Bible, four quarters
Systematic Theology, four quarters.

Each series of courses of the three outlined above be-
gins in the Junior Class, at the opening of the Seminary
in the fall, and one course follows another through the
three years as indicated.

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^Permanent Schedule

Tuesday

to
Saturday

Fall Quarter

Winter Quarter

Spring Quarter

Year

8:30

Homiletics

History

Past'l Theology

Eng. Bible

N. T. Exegesis

Eng. Bible

N. T. Exegesis

Apologetics

Junior
Middle
Senior

9:30

History

Eng. Bible

N. T. Exegesis

History

Eng. Bible

N. T. Exegesis

History

Theology

Education

Chapel

Tunior
Middle
Senior

10:30

Chapel

Chapel

11:00

Theology

Theology

Theology

Senior

12:00

Hebrew

O. T. Exegesis

Hebrew

O. T. Exegesis

Ethics

Hebrew

O. T. Exegesis

Junior
Middle
Senior

1:00

Eunch

Eunch

Eunch

2:00

Greek

Greek

Greek

Prep.

3-5

Recreation

Recreation

Recreation

6:00

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

'Effective September, 1928.

*1927-1928 Schedule

Tuesday

to
Saturday

Fall Quarter

Winter Quarter

Spring Quarter

Year

8:30

Homiletics

History

Past'l Theology

Eng. Bible

Eng. Bible

Tunior
Middle
Senior

9:30

Eng. Bible

Eng. Bible

N. T. Exegesis

Hom'l Hebrew
Eng. Bible

Junior
Middle
Senior

10:30

Chapel

Chapel

Chapel

11:00

History
Theology

t \ History
( History
Theology

t I History
-I History
f History

Junior
Middle
Senior

12:00

Hebrew
Apologetics

Hebrew

O. T. Exegesis

Ethics

Eunch

Hebrew
t j O. T. Exegesis
l O. T. Exegesis

Junior
Middle
Senior

1:00

Eunch

Eunch

2:00

Greek
Greek

Greek
Greek

Greek
Greek

Prep.

Jr. Spc'l.

3-5

Recreation

Recreation

Recreation

6:00

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

*This Schedule completes the transition from the old plan to the new. Students en-
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Notes on the Schedule

1. 50 Recitations per quarter in every course.

2. Three courses per quarter throughout nine quarters.

3. Three recitations each day, fifteen recitations per week.

4. The course requires 1350 recitation periods of one hour.

5. Additional courses to be provided for students taking the
English, and special courses, are not shown in this outline.

6. At the close of each quarter of ten weeks, one week is
allotted for examinations.

7. Special provision has been made in the schedule for classes
in Introductorv Greek.

Notes on the 1927-1928 Schedule

Junior Class.

The Junior Schedule follows the regular, permanent sched-
ule.

Middle Class.

1. English Bible During 1926-27 the class carried two
hours through the year. Two quarters will be completed
during 1927-28. leaving one quarter to be completed in
1928-29.

2. New Testament Exegesis Class will have completed dur-
ing 1926-27 most of work required during two quarters of
Middle year. Will complete work in New Testament Ex-
egesis in 1928-29, (their Senior Year).

3. Theology During 1926-27 the class has carried one hour
through the year. Will complete Theology in regular
schedule 1928-29, (their Senior Year).

Senior Class.

1. Schedule provides for completion of all Senior courses
as originally planned for this class.

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Choosing the Best Methods

In presenting the revised schedule which is described in the
preceding pages, the Faculty of Columbia Seminary realize
that they" are departing from beaten paths. An educational
institution which would give to its students opportunity for
the largest development and most rapid progress, must adapt
itself to changing conditions. It is necessary to revise methods
and programs when a better way has been discovered.

Dr. Robert L. Kelly, LL.D., Executive Secretary, Council
of Church Boards of Education, in his recent book, "THEO-
LOGICAL EDUCATION IN AMERICA," in discussing the
programs of one hundred sixty-three Theological Seminaries
in the United States and Canada, which were included in his
survey of Theological Education, says :

"A simple illustration of the type of work required with
the present curricula grows out of the existence in many
programs of study of a multitude of highly differentiated
courses carrying one or two hours credits, with the at-
tendant requirement that the student must carry fifteen
hours of work. The existence of so many such courses
is presumptively a serious deterrent to the unity which a
curriculum should achieve. Seminary faculties would do
well to address themselves to the problems of coordination
of subject-matter and continuity of study without which
unity certainly is impossible. Some seminary programs
appear to have been constructed with a view to providing
for a series on many subjects of weekly or semi-weekly
sermons."

Those who read carefully the schedule presented in this
catalogue will at once see that the practice which Dr. Kelly
condemns is avoided in the new schedule. The change pro-
posed brings the Seminary into line with the present practice in
the best post graduate schools.

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Supplementary Work

In addition to the regularly prescribed course of instruction
in the Seminary, there are many forms of Christian activity
in which the faculty and students of the Seminary are con-
stantly engaged. These activities are a source of interest to
all who are connected with the Seminary, and through them
is realized a larger development of Christian life on the campus.

Annual Course of Lectures on the Thomas Smyth
Foundation

Through the generosity of the late Thomas Smyth, D.D., of
Charleston, South Carolina, a Seminary lectureship has been
established called the Thomas Smyth Foundation. In accord-
ance with the conditions of the bequest, some person who is
of worthy character and distinguished for learning and ability
is chosen each year by the Board of Directors and the Faculty
of Columbia Theological Seminary to deliver a course of
lectures before the students of the Seminary. This series of
lectures will deal from year to year with the fundamental
principles of the Christian faith.

The funds bequeathed to the institution by Dr. Smyth to
found this lectureship, according to the terms of the bequest,
were allowed to accumulate until they amounted to $10,000.
For the past seventeen years distinguished lecturers have filled
this lectureship, treating a large variety of themes, doctrinal,
critical, practical, archaelogical and historical.

Extension Work by the Faculty

The Professors of the Seminary are constantly engaged in
preaching and lecturing in various communities within the
bounds of the five Synods. Courses of lectures are delivered
by the Seminary professors in response to the requests of
particular churches and communities.

The Country Church

Rev. Henry W. McLaughlin, D.D., General Assembly Di-
rector of the Country Church, will, during October, conduct
three classes on the Country Church, as follows :

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The Country Church and the Bible. Seventy-five per cent
of the world's population, thirty-eight per cent of the people
of the United States, and seventy per cent of the dwellers in
the South are engaged in agriculture.

The Bible is couched in the language of the people of the
world. It breathes of the fields and hills. The teachings and
illustrations of Jesus were fitted to the understanding not only
of His own age, but all ages.

A knowledge of the country gives a better understanding
of the Bible, and the teachings of the Bible about rural rela-
tionships are applicable to modern day needs in the country
church.

In this study it shall be the aim to discover and relate the
teachings of the Bible to modern day conditions and problems
of the country people.

Textbooks The Bible itself and "Bible and Rural Life," by
Henry H. Myers, editor.

Rural Religious Conditions. We are living in a new
rural world. People in the country now have many advantages
and opportunities that did not belong to our forefathers con-
solidated high schools, better rural primary schools, better
roads, automobiles, telephones, agricultural agencies, etc.

In this course we will study rural life as it is related to the
new conditions and changed relationships that have come to
pass in recent years with the purpose of discovering the
needs of the present age in the country, how the Church can
meet these needs, and where may be found the most fruitful
fields of endeavor.

Textbook "Minutes of the General Assembly" and other
assigned parallel readings.

Methods of Efficiency. In this we take up a series of
studies on the program of the country preacher ; the program
for himself, for his church, for his community, his eldership,
his diaconate, his Sunday School, his women of the church,
his men of the church, his young people, and the relationships
of other agencies working together for community advance-
ment.

In these studies it is the aim to discover every-day problems-
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view of finding a solution as offered by the experience of some
minister or churches which have solved them.

Textbook "The Program of the Country Church," by
Roadman, and other assigned books.

Religious Exercises

Daily prayers which every student is required to attend are
conducted in the chapel every morning by a member of the
Faculty.

Various meetings for worship are maintained by the students,
either as a body or by each class separately.

Every Friday afternoon the Faculty and students meet to-
gether in the chapel. Students conduct devotional exercises
and preach. Afterwards the members of the Faculty offer
suggestions with reference to the subject matter of the sermons
and the manner of their delivery.

Society of Missionary Inquiry

The constitution of this society requires that it meet on al-
ternate Tuesday evenings, and hold a separate business meeting
once a month. It should prove a power in awakening and
sustaining interest in missions, and in promoting local mission
work. The society is divided into a number of mission study
classes, each class using a different textbook, treating a differ-
ent phase of missions.

The Student Volunteer Band

This group is composed of students who have signed the
declaration card of the Student Volunteer Movement for
Foreign Missions, stating that it is their purpose, if God per-
mit, to serve Him on the foreign field. These Seminary
Volunteers have regular weekly meetings at which different
topics dealing with Christian life and the problems of the
foreign missionary are discussed. The band also works in
conjunction with the City Union of Volunteers in the matter of
sending out deputation teams to different places in the city in
order to quicken the missionary spirit of the churches.

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Opportunities for Observing Religious Work

By reason of her location and environment in the City of
Atlanta, Columbia Seminary will in the future be in position
to furnish her students various opportunities for engaging in
active religious work. Atlanta is the largest city in the South.
Within the metropolitan area every type of church and every
form of Christian activity is found. This gives to the students
of Columbia Seminary unusual advantages and an opportunity
to study the work of typical churches, both of our own church,
and of other denominations. Atlanta is also in the heart of
Southern agricultural life. In the outlying agricultural dis-
tricts, and in the villages, towns and cities which lie within
easy reach of the Seminary, the students will have opportunity
to study, under most favorable conditions, church work in the
rural and small town communities. This ideal location fur-
nishes exceptional advantages of a clinical nature for the
thorough preparation of ministers equipped for every task
which the church faces.

Mission Work

The churches of Atlanta and the surrounding country wilL
offer many and varied opportunities for mission work, in ad-
dition to the training which results from observation of others
at work. The churches of the city are well organized with
respect to Sunday Schools and young people's societies. The
students of the Seminary will be expected to take an active
part in the work of these church organizations.

Already a number of the students of Columbia Seminary
have been engaged by the Home Mission Committees of the
Presbyteries within easy reach of Atlanta, to supply, during the
summer, Home Mission fields, and to assist in other forms of
Christian work. There will be opportunity for a number of
students to engage, during the session, in a reasonable amount
of supply work and other forms of religious activity, for which
the churches and Home Mission Committees will provide a
reasonable remuneration.

Atlanta Presbytery fosters a vigorous work among the col-
ored people. This is considered by the Home Mission Com-
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of its work. The colored work of Atlanta Presbytery will
give to our students opportunity for special training in this
field, which in the South constitutes one of our most fruitful
opportunities for service.

The Seminary will endeavor to co-operate with the Y. M. C.
A., Salvation Army, Evangelistic Clubs, and other agencies
who are engaged in various forms of informal preaching and
welfare service in the shops, industrial plants, on the streets,
and elsewhere.

Preaching by Students

Students of the Senior and Middle Classes are permitted,
with the consent of the Presbyteries concerned, to supply va-
cant churches within a reasonable distance, provided absence
from the campus does not conflict with their Seminary duties.
Calls for regular supply work by students frequently come
to the Seminary from home mission committees and vacant
churches, and for temporary supply during the absence of
pastors from their own pulpits. Many mission churches are
regularly supplied by members of the Senior Class and in
some cases by members of the Middle Class. Except in special
cases, members of the Junior Class are not permitted to under-
take regular supply work.

No student, except in case of necessity, should undertake
regular work which would make necessary his absence from
the campus oftener than twice a month. Where necessity
compels a student to engage in full time supply work, the
Faculty will consider each case on its merits.

A bureau of preaching supply has been organized by the
Faculty for the purpose of apportioning supply work as re-
quests are received from vacant churches. Assignments to this
service are made in accordance with a carefully arranged
system. The members of the Senior Class and regularly en-
rolled graduate students have the preference over the Middle
Class, and the Middle Class in turn over the Junior. All
assignments to the work of preaching will be made under
direction of the faculty.

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The Seminary Library

The library of the Columbia Seminary is probably the most
extensive and the most valuable collection of theological liter-
ature in the South. It forms an important 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., and Rev. S.
Beach Jones, D.D. New books are being continually added
from a fund set apart for the purpose, as well as by gift. The
libraries of the professors, amounting to several thousand
volumes, are accessible to the students.

Gifts to the Seminary Library

The Seminary has recently received as a gift from the
family of Rev. J. William Flinn, D.D., deceased, an honored
alumnus of the institution, the books formerly owned and used
by Dr. Flinn. This valuable collection of books contains a large
number of standard works on Philosophy, Logic, and Ethics.
This collection includes also a considerable number of books
which once formed part of the library of Dr. Thomas Smyth,
of Charleston, S. C. These volumes are known as the Flinn
Annex to the Smyth Library.

The First Presbyterian Church, Montgomery. Alabama,
has donated to the Columbia Seminary the collection of books
once the property of the former pastor, Rev. David Finley,
D.D.

From the estate of Rev. Charles S. Vedder, D.D., LL.D., an
honored alumnus of this Seminary, and later pastor of the
Huguenot Church, Charleston, S. C, a gift of three hundred
valuable books has been donated to the Seminary library.

The Rev. M. C. Hutton, D.D., of Georgetown, Texas, an
honored alumunus of the class of 1872, has presented to the
Seminary a valuable selection of choice books from his own
library consisting of volumes which he had found especially
helpful in his own ministry.

The large and valuable library of the late Rev. Samuel M.
Smith, D.D., who was at the time of his death the pastor of
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been given by the family of Dr. Smith to the Columbia Semi-
nary.

The collection of books formerly owned and used by the
Rev. W. B. Arrowood, D.D., late pastor of Bethel Church,
York County, South Carolina, has been given by his daughter
to the Seminary library.

Valuable books from the library of the late Rev. William E.
Boggs, D.D., former professor and also member of the Board
of Directors of the Columbia Theological Seminary, have been
presented to the library.

The library of the late Rev. Richard C. Reed, D.D., LL.D.,
former Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Polity
in Columbia Seminary, has been given to the Seminary Li-
brary. This gift includes many valuable books dealing with
Church History and Church Polity.

The Smyth Library Fund

The Rev. Thomas Smyth. D.D., whose valuable library
constitutes a large portion of the Seminary Library, made
provision in his will for the endowment of the library with a
gift of $10,000.00. The income from this fund is used for
the purchase of additional volumes for the library. This
generous bequest makes it possible for our library to purchase
such books as are needed each year for the proper develop-
ment of the library facilities, and assures the continual ad-
dition to the library of indispensable new books.

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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. Or, if 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 Pres-
byterian 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. Or, if he has not
completed such a course, the student must furnish testimonials
showing that he has received adequate training in subjects
fundamental to the studies of the Seminary.

(3) Students who desire to matriculate for the degree of
Bachelor of Divinity must present a degree from a standard
college or university.

Collegiate 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 requirements 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.

Adequate time should be given to Latin and Greek, philoso-
phy, Bible history, ancient and modern history, the English
language, English literature, Education and Psychology.

Instruction in the New Testament presupposes knowledge
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 language.

Students found to be inadequately prepared are offered
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Seminary. The regular courses in the New Testament do not
begin until the winter quarter of the middle year.

Students from Other Seminaries

A student coming from another seminary will be received
ad eundem gradum on his presentation of a letter from that
seminary certifying to his good standing, and regularly dis-
missing 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 require-
ments of this Seminary with reference to knowledge of the
original languages of Scripture.

Diplomas

Any student who completes in a satisfactory manner all of
the coures of study given in the Seminary and who presents to
the Faculty a diploma of graduation from a standard college
or university of the highest accredited grade will receive a di-
ploma from this Seminary according him the degree of Bach-
elor of Divinity.

Certificates

Students who do not possess the requisite academic diploma
but complete the regular course of study in the Seminary
receive a certificate of graduation. A student who takes some
of the courses may receive a certificate setting forth those com-
pleted by him.

Pledge

Every applicant for admission who has presented satisfactory
credentials is required to subscribe to the following declaration :

"Deeply impressed with the 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 conscien-
tiously and vigilantly observe all the rules and regulations
specified in the plan for its instruction and government, so far
as the same relate 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 Seminary
while I shall continue a member of it."

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Expenses

No Fees. The expense of a session at Columbia Seminary
is unusually small, in view of the advantages and opportunities
which the Seminary offers. No charge is made by the Semi-
nary for tuition, room rent, fuel, light or library fee. The
rooms are completely furnished, with the exception of sheets,
pillow cases, bed spreads, cover and towels. Each student is
required to furnish these necessary supplies for his own room.
Where it is necessary for a student to purchase these items,
they can be bought through the Seminary for much less than
the retail price in a general store. The dormitories are cared
for by competent servants, there being no charge to the student
for this service.

Board. Board is furnished to the students at cost. Under
the supervision and direction of a competent matron, the board-
ing department is efficiently administered. The Seminary
realizes that wholesome, nourishing and well-balanced meals
are necessary. In no educational institution are better meals
provided than are now offered at Columbia Seminary.

Textbooks. All required textbooks and other books
needed by the student are furnished from our book store at
reduced prices. Any student may, if he has opportunity,
purchase second-hand books or use books furnished to him by
friends. The cost of text books purchased new from the book
room will average about $25.00 per year.

Incidental Expenses. The incidental expenses, other than
board and textbooks, will be determined in large measure by
the temperament and disposition of the student himself. A
careful student will find it possible to keep this incidental ex-
pense within a reasonable limit.

With the financial aid provided for candidates under the
care of our Presbyteries, many students on our Campus are
able to meet all necessary expenses including board, books and
incidentals. In addition to this expense on the Campus 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 can be provided by sum-
mer work.

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Financial Aid

Loans to Candidates. The General Assembly's Com-
mittee of Christian Education and Ministerial Relief, with
headquarters at Louisville, Kentucky, is prepared to grant to
ministerial students who are under care of Presbytery a loan
each year for three years to be carried without interest until
the Seminary course is completed. This loan is to be repaid,
either in money or service under conditions prescribed by the
General Assembly. The last General Assembly fixed the
amount of this loan at $150, with a maximum of $175 in cases
of special need.

This loan is available for all regular students. Application
for the loan should be made through the Chairman of the Com-
mittee of Christian Education in the Presbytery under whose
care the candidate is being trained. The Seminary has nothing
to do with the granting of this loan, but we shall be glad to
furnish information and to render any assistance in the matter.

The payment of this loan is usually made in four installments.
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 necessary, an annual scholarship of $150. In order to obtain
this scholarship the student must present with his application a
written statement from the Chairman of Christian Education
in his Presbytery recommending that the scholarship be granted.
The request must also be approved by the Faculty.

Self-Support

It is most desirable for the student himself, that, wherever
it is possible he should seek to be independent and self-sup-
porting. The Church is glad to provide the loan, and the Semi-
nary is glad to provide a scholarship wherever it is necessary ;
but no student should be willing to accept either the loan or
scholarship until his own resources have been exhausted.

Self-support develops in a man self-reliance and virile
character. No qualities are more essential to vigorous man-
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than in the Christian ministry. The minister of the Gospel is
not only a teacher; but he is a recognized leader, both of the
Church to which he ministers and in the community of which
his church is a part. The responsibility of leadership, there-
fore, places upon the minister a greater responsibility for the
development of self-reliance and independence. Dependence
on others, where it is avoidable, does not contribute to the de-
velopment of the finer qualities of leadership. Every student
should make it a matter of honor to go as far as possible in
providing for his own support during Seminary days.

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General Information

Seminary Year

The Seminary year begins on the third Wednesday in Sep-
tember. The 19271928 session will begin September 14, 1927
at 10:00 o'clock A. M., with an address by the President of
the Seminary, in the new chapel of the Seminary, which is
located on the second floor of the Virginia Orme Campbell
Memorial Building. The opening exercises will be followed
immediately by the formal matriculation of students. It is
important that all students who plan to enter the Seminary
be present for this opening exercise.

The session has been extended to include thirty-six weeks,
one week to open and close the session, and two weeks for the
Christmas holiday. The session is divided into three quarters
of eleven weeks each, the last week of each term being re-
served for examinations.

The session will come to a close with the celebration of the
Centennial, in connection with the Commencement exercises,
May 20th to 23rd, inclusive.

Examinations

At the close of each term written examinations are held
upon all the subjects studied during the term. No student is
permitted to be absent from the examination of his class, except
for satisfactory reasons. In the event that a student is absent
from the regular examinations, he must afterwards stand a
special examination.

Reports to Presbyteries

At the close of each term a full report concerning each stu-
dent will be sent to the Chairman of the Committee on Christian
Education in the Presbytery under whose care the work of
the student is being directed. This report will set forth all
facts with reference to the student's attendance, punctuality,
deportment, diligence, and class standing.

Where unusual conditions arise which would seem to make
necessary a special report to the Presbytery, a letter will be
written by the President of the Seminary calling attention to
any matters which should be brought before the Presbytery.

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Two New Professors

With the opening of the Seminary in Atlanta, Columbia
Seminary will add to her faculty two new professors, the

Rev. Wm. C. Robinson, S.T.M., and
the Rev. Hunter B. Blakely, Th.D.
Both of these are young men who
have achieved success in their minis-
try as pastor and preacher. Both are
men of thorough preparation, whose
scholarship and ability have already
been proved by their achievement in
the field of scholarship. Both are
seeking further special preparation
for their class room work, Mr. Robin-
son in the Department of History at
Harvard University, and Doctor
Blakely in Universities and Theolog-
ical Seminaries abroad, where he will
spend sixteen months in the study of
New Testament Literature and Exe-
gesis. Mr. Robinson assumes the
duties of his chair with the opening of
the next session, while Doctor Blakely
will join the faculty in the fall of 1928. DR blakely

[R. ROBINSON

The Centennial

With the close of the 1927-1928 session, Columbia Theo-
logical Seminary will have served the church for a century.
The century has witnessed many changes in educational
methods and large development in the content of theological
curricula. The founders of Columbia Seminary set a high
standard for themselves and for the institution committed to
their care. Their successors have at all times endeavored to
maintain this high standard, and to keep abreast of the un-
folding program and the growing needs of the church, that a
ministry might be provided thoroughly trained and equipped
for its task.

The history of this century-old School of the Prophets is
an honorable record of service, and of achievement in the
building of the Kingdom.

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The celebration of the Centennial of Columbia Theological
Seminary not only marks the closing of a great period in her
history; but it marks the beginning of a new era of expansion
and growth, which brings to the Seminary opportunity for
larger service and for greater achievement in the cause of the
Master. The occasion of the Centennial celebration will be
the outstanding event of a generation in the Southern Pres-
byterian Church.

The new program of the Seminary has been received with
confidence and enthusiastic approval by the Southern Pres-
bvterian Church.

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Directions for Reaching the Seminary

The new 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 pur-
chase 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 arrival 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.

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.

Trunk checks should be brought to the Seminary. Ar-
rangements will be made for transfer of trunks and other
baggage.

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Historical Statement

FIRST HOME OF COLUMBIA SEMINARY
LEXINGTON, GA.

Beginning of the Seminary

Hopewell
Presbytery i n
Georgia first
suggested the
founding of a
Theological
Seminary, and
in 1817 appoint-
ed a committee
for this purpose.
The next effort
was put forth in
1824 by the
Presbytery of South Carolina. The whole matter was finally
turned over to the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia, which
at that time was one Synod.

On December 15th, 1828, Synod resolved to establish the
Seminary, and elected Dr. Thomas Goulding Professor of
Theology. Work was started at Lexington, Georgia, with
five students.

Early Years in Columbia, S. C.

Early in January, 1830, Dr. Goulding, with his few students,
moved to Columbia and was domiciled in the parsonage of the
Presbyterian Church procured for his use. The next year
he moved into the buildings occupying the present site of the
Seminary.

That same year, 1831, Dr. George Howe was elected pro-
fessor of Biblical Literature, and the first class began the
prescribed course of theological studies. The curriculum was
modeled after Andover and Princeton. Two years later Rev.
Aaron W. Leland was elected to the Chair of Christian The-
ology, Dr. Goulding having been transplanted to that of Eccle-
siastical History and Polity.

The founders of Columbia Seminary were men of prophetic
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ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
COLUMBIA, S. C.

Cotton Belt
could not fulfill
its mission un-
less an adequate
supply of relig-
ious leaders
were called out
and trained by
the Church in
their own sec-
tion.

Dr. Howe en-
tered on a ser-
vice for the
Seminary that
lasted fifty-two
years and three months. When he was thirty- four years old,
he had a call from the Board of Directors of Union Seminary,
New York, to the Chair of Sacred Literature in that insti-
tution. The call was urged on him in most flattering terms.
His reason for declining should endear his memory to us. He
wrote : "When I accepted the Professorship which I hold it
was with the hope that I might be the means of building up the
wastes, and extending the borders of our Southern Zion. This
motive still holds me here. Though our Institution must be
a small one through the present generation and vours will be
large, IT IS IMPORTANT, IT IS NECESSARY, WHAT-
EVER THE FATE OF OUR BELOVED COUNTRY,
THAT THIS SEMINARY SHOULD LIVE. If I leave
it at the present juncture, its continuance is exceedingly
doubtful. If I remain, though the field of my effort must
be small, and I must live in obscuritv, WE MAY YET
TRANSMIT TO THE MEN OF THIS NEXT GENE-
RATION AN INSTITUTION WHICH WILL BLESS
THEM AND THE WORLD." Bear in mind that this was
a man of Northern birth and rearing who was willing to
scarifice most flattering prospects of worldly advancement,
to move in a small sphere and lead a life of obscurity for the
sake of a young and struggling institution, rather than endanger
its perpetuity.

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Loyal to a Great Past

A hundred years of church history attest the notable con-
tribution Columbia has made to Presbyterianism in the South.
Few institutions in the country can show as great a record.
It will never outgrow or forget the men who have made the
Seminary what it is. Names like Goulding, Howe and Leland,
Palmer. Thornwell and J. R. Wilson, Woodrow, Plummer and
Girardeau are a part of the history of our denomination.
Their work will always be revered. These and many more
men Columbia has contributed in the past.

Columbia's Contribution

Columbia has trained 926 ministers, 350 of whom are living.
The present enrollment is 63 : Senior class, 7 ; Middle, 18 ;
Junior, 38. This year 42 new students were enrolled. This
is the largest enrollment in the history of the Seminary. It
now seems certain that when the Seminary opens in Atlanta
we will have 100 students. It is the earnest endeavor of
Columbia Seminary to continue to provide trained leaders for
the future who are worthy of the traditions and heritage of
the past.

Columbia's Territory
Statistics of the Church in Columbia's territory tell a graphic
story. When the Seminary was founded it took South Caro-
lina and Georgia both to form one Synod and that, at its best,
was not a large Synod: 73 ministers, 11 licentiates, 128
churches, and 8,560 communicants. It contained five Presby-
teries, two in Georgia and
three in South Carolina.
The territory of Columbia
Seminary now contains
five Synods, which cover
a territory stretching
from the Atlantic Ocean
to the Mississippi River,
and from the North Car-
olina-Tennessee line to
Key West. Atlanta, the
future home of the Semi-
nary, is in the center, not
only of this territory, but of the entire South.

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This area contains 247,785 square miles with over ten
millions population. Our Church in this territory reports
1,171 churches, a membership of 134,770, ordained ministers,
632, and 204 candidates for the ministry. The present
available supply of recruits for the ministry is barely sufficient
to replace those who are removed from active service, while
many inviting fields, where strong self-supporting churches
could be quickly developed, must be neglected because of the
shortage of ministers. Every indication points to an unprece-
dented development in the South, which brings to our Church
increased responsibility for trained Christian leadership to
meet the growing need.

The challenge which comes in the movement to rebuild
Columbia Seminary in Atlanta, and to better equip it for its
work, calls for consecration of the resources and life of the
Church.

The Church Responsible

If the church in this section does not provide adequate fa-
cilities for training her own men, they must go elsewhere.
Those who go away rarely come back, and when they do return
it is often difficult to hold them because of freindships made
and associations formed during Seminary days.

To say that a hundred and thirty-five thousand Southern
Presbyterians can not build and maintain a Theological Semi-
nary to train our own ministers is to acknowledge weakness
which no one is willing to admit. To know that we can do it,
and yet will not, proves that we are unworthy of our task and
of the privileges and opportunities which have opened to us.

The Present Status of the Seminary

A brief word about the present status of the Seminary.
Modesty forbids our paying a just tribute to the men who
compose the present Faculty. Fortunately they can speak for
themselves. It is enough that they enjoy the full confidence
of the Church. They can be trusted to conserve and nourish
and bring into larger fruit fulness the precious interests en-
trusted to them. They are forward looking men, anxious to
see the leadings of God's providence and willing to follow it.
Behind them are the fathers who wrought mightily for God,
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not to be forgotten. Looking both forward and backward they
see nothing to shake their belief in the essential soundness of
the distinctive principles which gave birth to our Church and
for which it has hitherto stood.

Worthy of a Great Future

In the last analysis a seminary is made up, not of buildings,
but of MEN with common ideals and a wide range of scholar-
ship coupled with the vigor and enthusiasm of young men in
training. Columbia has these men although not in such num-
bers as she would like. New buildings, improved library
facilities and equipment, will immediately bring more men and
provide for them better training. The quality of young men
coming to the Seminary today is worthy of the best that we
can give.

The new location in Atlanta, recognized by 560 commercial
companies as the distributing center of the South assures easy
access to this field. The generous support of the people of
Georgia will double the Seminary assets. So situated, with a
new plant and larger resources, Columbia will turn out more
men and better trained men for the ministry. It will render a
greater service to the Synods of the Southeast.

Building for the Future

The dominant idea in planning for the new home of Colum-
bia Seminary is that we are building for the future. The
strategic location in Atlanta, the strength of Presbyterianism
in this section, the anticipated rapid development of the South,
and the growth of our church in the Cotton Belt call for
forethought and far-sighted wisdom in planning a seminary
for the future.

A comprehensive plan and building program to care for all
possible needs of the future have been proposed. The larger
program provides for the construction, first, of the Seminary
itself. This will be built in units as needed and as building
funds are secured.

The Seminary proper will include the academic group, con-
sisting of the tower section, administration and classroom
building, and the library ; a beautiful chapel ; dormitories for
three hundred men ; apartments for married students ; a stand-
ard athletic field and gymnasium ; homes for the faculty and
others connected with the Seminary, and a central heating
plant for the entire development.

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In addition to the Seminary itself, provision is made for the
future development of a Standard Training School in Christian
Education for lay workers, Mission Terrace with homes for
missionary families, and a community church, when the growth
of the community makes a church desirable.

The type of architecture adopted is scholastic gothic, follow-
ing the type of the Oxford buildings. The buildings will be of
fireproof construction, faced with red brick and trimmed in
limestone.

The site consisting of 57^4 acres with its wonderful contour,
the varied and rich plant life, its magnificent trees, and the
superb outlook from its lofty elevation, lends itself admirably
to the development of a great institution and offers in back-
ground everything which could be desired for artistic beauty
and fitness.

The new plant of Columbia Theological Seminary, situated
in this ideal location, will form one of the handsomest educa-
tional groups to be found on any Southern campus.

BREAKING GROUND FOR
NEW SEMINARY

Construction Under Way

On September 13th ground
was broken for the Virginia
Orme Campbell Memorial
Building which, for the present
provides for all Seminary ac-
tivities including offices of
administration, the library and
reading room, class rooms,
students recreation, ladies par-
lor a temporary chapel and
the refectory. In this com-
modious building it is possible
to make ample temporary pro-
vision for all of these activi-
ties without inconvenience or
crowding. The day following

work
on the administration
building and the first unit of
the dormitory.

the breaking of ground,
began

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Plans for the Removal

Work on the two buildings now under construction is pro-
gressing according to schedule. The Building Committee is
assured by the contractors that these two buildings will be
delivered not later than July 15th.

Plans have been perfected for packing and removal of the
library and other equipment which will be used in the new
buildings. Transfer of the Seminary will take place the latter
part of July or the first of August, that the administration
may have ample time to arrange for the opening of the Semi-
nary September 14th.

During the early spring all grading on the Campus was
completed, except in the area immediately surrounding the
two buildings, where building material made work of this
kind impossible. Grading in this area will be completed im-
mediately after the builders have gone. Mission Terrace,
Faculty Circle and other necessary drives have been graded
and drained.

During the summer the City of Decatur and DeKalb County
will pave Oak Road which leads from Decatur past the Semi-
nary Campus to the Forrest Hill Golf Club.

Under direction of the landscape designer, all undesirable
trees have been removed from the Campus and where neces-
sary to give spreading room to the better trees the trees on
the Campus have been thinned.

No part of the work of preparation, which could be com-
pleted in advance, has been left unfinished. It is the purpose
of the Building Committee to have the Seminary buildings
and grounds present, as nearly as possible, a completed ap-
pearance at the opening of the session.

The Board of Directors has directed the Building Com-
mittee to proceed at once with the erection of homes for the
members of the faculty. Plans are being drawn for these
homes by the architects who designed the academic group.
Construction will begin about the first of June. The homes
will be completed during the early fall.

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Gifts to the Seminary

It is necessary during the transition period, which will
cover this and the next two years, to solicit aid from friends
of the Seminary and of theological education in order to meet
the expense of operation and to provide the funds necessary
for scholarships which are granted to worthy students. The
President of the Seminary is organizing among the Alumni
and friends of the Seminary who are willing to contribute an
annual gift for this purpose, the Supporting League, with
membership ranging from $1.00 to $100.00 per year. The
President is also seeking aid from churches and individuals
in the form of annual scholarships.

Three classes of scholarship are provided as follows : Class
A, $150.00 per year; Class B, $100.00 per year; Class C,
$50.00 per year. From these two sources a fund of more than
$5,500.00 has been secured during the past year. It is the
hope of the President of the Seminary that other friends may
realize the importance of this work, and, in the face of the
growing need, join those who have already enlisted by taking
a membership in the Supporting League, or providing a
scholarship of whatever class is convenient.

Supporting League

Contributions Received During the Year

Rev. G. L. Petrie, D.D., Charlottsville, Va $ 150.00

Rev. E. D. Kerr, D.D., Columbia, S. C 120.00

Rev. J. B. Green, D.D., Columbia, S. C 100.00

Rev. A. G. Irons, Birmingham, Ala 100.00

Rev. W. E. Mcllwain, D.D., Pensacola, Fla 100.00

Rev. C. M. Boyd, D.D., Tuscaloosa, Ala 100.00

Miscellaneous, from Alumni and others 1,188.32

Total $1,858.32

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Annual Scholarships

Contributions Received During the Year

Mens Bible Class, Rock Hill, S. C $ 351.50

Ladies Education Society, Second Presbyterian Church Charles-
ton, S. C 350.00

First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Miss 275.00

Mrs. L. M. Hill, Washington, Ga 175.00

Rev. W. M. McPheeters, D.D., Columbia, S. C 168.00

J. D. Baker, and others, Jacksonville, Fla 150.00

Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Boyd. Deland, Fla 150.00

Mrs. T. S. Bryan. Columbia, S. C 150.00

L. M. Brown, West Union, S. C 150.00

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Corley. Sanford, Fla 150.00

Rev. Melton Clark, D.D., Columbia, S. C 150.00

A Friend, Winston-Salem, N. C 150.00

Mrs. Jere King, Birmingham, Ala 150.00

Capt. E. A. Smyth, Flat Rock, N. C 150.00

J. T. Stevens, Kershaw, S. C 150.00

Blackshear Bible Class. Blackshear, Ga 100.00

Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Brantley, Blackshear, Ga 100.00

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Craig, Chattanooga, Tenn 100.00

The Mary B. Groover Annual Scholarship, by Mr. and Mrs.

F. C. Groover, Jacksonville, Fla 100.00

Mrs. W. G. Neville, Clinton, S. C 100.00

Townsend Estate, By H. W. Pratt, Trustee, Columbia, S. C... 60.00

C. C. Alexander, Meridian, Miss 50.00

Ella C. Davidson Auxiliary, York, S. C 50.00

N. G. James, Haynesville, Ala 50.00

Rev. John McSween, Anderson, S. C 50.00

Salem, S. C, Auxiliary, Strother, S. C 50.00

J. L. Young, Plant City, Fla 50.00

Florence, S. C, Auxiliary. Florence, S. C 25.00

Young Womans Bible Class. Decatur, Ga 25.00

J. N. Peel, Boyds, Ala 25.00

Miscellaneous 68.50

Total $3,823.00

The Carson Gillespie Jenkins Memorial Scholarship

Mrs. Rosa Gillespie Jenkins, of Sumter, S. C, has presented
to the Seminary a gift of $1,000.00 to establish the Carson
Gillespie Jenkins Scholarship as a memorial to her only son
who gave his life in the service of his country during the
World War.

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Student Loan Funds

During the past year an effort has been made to secure a
Loan Fund, to be used in cases of emergency, in providing
short term loans for students when overtaken by emergen-
cies or illness for which no provision has been made. As a
result of this effort a fund of $1,200.00 has been secured with
the promise of an additional $300.00, which will be added in
the near future. With the anticipated increase in the student
body this fund should be immediately increased to $3,000.00.

The Student Loan Fund has made it possible to meet every
emergency need which has arisen during the year. Most of
the loans are small, and, with the exception of loans made
near the close of the session to be repaid during the summer,
loans have been returned promptly. Those who provided this
Fund will never know the measure of good which their
generousity has accomplished.

Student Loan Funds Received, as follows:

The Ives Loan Fund, by Mrs. S. E. Ives, First Pres-
byterian Church, Orlando, Fla $ 600.00

The James Bailey Magruder, Senior and Junior,
Loan Fund, by Mrs. James B. Magruder, First
Presbyterian Church, Orlando, Fla 300.00

The First Presbyterian Auxiliary, Orlando, Fla.,
Loan Fund, by the Woman's Auxiliary of the
First Presbyterian Church, in honor of their
preacher, Rev. J. Blanton Belk, Alumnus of
Columbia Seminary 150.00

The Kekomoisa Bryan Loan Fund, by Dr. and Mrs.
J. A. Bryan, Birmingham, Ala., in memory of
their daughter 150.00

Total $1,200.00

Special Benefit Fund

A Special Benefit Fund, for medical and surgical care
of students, from Columbia friends, through
Mrs. T. S. Bryan $ 215.00

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Scholarships Pledged in the Georgia Campaign

The following scholarships have been reported from the
Georgia Campaign. Full description of these scholarships
has not yet been received. This information will be published
later. The scholarship established by Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Brantley, Blackshear, Ga., is a Memorial to Dr. Richard Clark
Reed. Not all of these scholarships have been paid in full as
the period of payment extends over two years.

Mr. W. R. Ashe, 2538 Henry St., Augusta, Ga. ..$2,500.00

Mrs. Louise B. Bourne, Augusta, Ga 2,500.00

Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Brantley, Blackshear, Ga 2,500.00

Mrs. Evelyn M. Clay, 817 Whitaker St., Savannah,

Ga 2,500.00

First Presbyterian Church, Albany, Ga 2,500.00

First Presbyterian Church, Marietta, Ga 2,500.00

First Presbyterian Church, Rome, Ga 2,500.00

First Presbyterian Church, Valdosta, Ga 3,000.00

Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin W. Ford, Columbus, Ga 2,500.00

Misses Lottie and Lutie Hendrick, Covington, Ga. . . 2,500.00
Mr. Robert M. Hitch, 17 Drayton St., Savannah, Ga. 2,500.00
Independent Presbyterian Church, Savannah, Ga... 5,000.00

Men's Bible Class, First Church, Augusta, Ga 2,650.00

Mrs. Roberta L. Morton, Athens, Ga 1,000.00

Mr. Wm. Murphy, Savannah, Ga 2,500.00

Mrs. Leila A. Thornton and Mr. W. W. Austell,

Atlanta, Ga 2,500.00

Vineville Presbyterian Church, Macon, Ga 2,500.00

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 be used as the basis of an annual book
prize. At the close of each session the proceeds of the gift
made by Mr. Wilds will be invested in books and the books
will be bestowed as a prize upon a student selected by the
Faculty, in accordance with conditions prescribed by the donor.
In May, 1926, this prize was bestowed upon Marshall C.
Dendy, A.B., B.D., a member of the Senior Class.

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Appendix

Members of the Faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary,

Accessus 1828-1927 Exitus

1828 Thomas Goulding,* D.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical His-
tory and Church Polity 1834
1831 George Howe,* D.D., LL.D., Professor of Biblical Lit-
erature. 1883
1833 A. W. LEeand,* D.D., Professor of Christian Theology. 1856
1836 ChareES Coecock Jones,* D.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical

History and Church Polity. 1838

1848 ChareES Coecock Jones,* D.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical

History and Church Polity. 1850

1852 Alexander T. McGiee,* D.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical

History and Church Polity. 1853

1853 Benjamin M. Palmer,* D.D., LL.D., Provisional In-

structor in Ecclesiastical History and Church Polity. 1853

1854 Benjamin M. Palmer,* D.D., LL.D., Professor of Ecclesi-

astical History and Church Polity. 1856

1856 James Henley ThornwELL,* D.D., LL.D., Professor of

Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology. 1856

1856 James Henry ThornwELL,* D.D., LL.D., Professor of

Didactic and Polemic Theology. 1862

1857 John B. Adger,* D.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical History

and Church Polity. 1874

1861 James Woodrow* Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., Perkins Professor

of Natural Science in Connection with Revelation. 1886

1862 Benjamin M. Palmer* D.D., LL.D., Professor of Di-

dactic and Polemic Theology. 1865

1867 William S. PlumEr* D.D., LL.D., Professor of Didatic

and Polemic Theology. 1875

1870 Joseph R. Wilson* D.D., Professor of Pastoral and

Evangelistic Theology and Sacred Rhetoric. 1874

1875 William S. PlumEr,* D.D., LL.D., Professor of Pastoral,

Casuistic and Historical Theology. 1880

1876 John L. Girardeau* D.D., LL.D., Professor of Didactic

and Polemic Theology. 1895

1882 Charles R. Hemphill, D.D., Associate Professor of Bib-
lical Literature. 1883

1882 William E. Boggs,* D.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical His-

tory and Church Polity. 1885

1883 Charles R. Hemphill, D.D., Professor of Biblical Litera-

ture. 1885

1885 James D. Tadlock,* D.D., LL.D., Professor of Ecclesi-
astical History and Church Polity. 1898

1887 Charles C. Hersman,* D.D., Professor of Biblical Litera-

ture. 1888

1888 Francis R. BeattiE,* Ph.D., D.D., Perkins Professor of

Natural Science in Connection with Revelation, and
Christian Apologetics. 1893

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Accessus Exitw

1888 William M. McPheeters. D.D., Professor of Biblical

Literature. 1893

1892 Daniel J. Brimm, A.M., Associate Professor of Biblical

Literature. 1893

1893 William M. McPheeters, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Old

Testament Literature and Exegesis.

1893 Daniel J. Brimm, D.D., Professor of New Testament Lit-
erature and Exegesis. 1900

1893 Samuel S. Laws * A.M., M.D., D.D., LL.D., Perkins Pro-
fessor of Natural Science in Connection with Revelation,
and Christian Apologetics 1898

1895 William T. Hall,* D.D., LL.D., Professor of Didactic

and Polemic Theology. 1911

1898 Richard C. Reed,* D.D., LL.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical

History and Church Polity. 1925

1898 Samuel M. Smith * D.D., Provisional Instructor in Pas-
toral Theology and Homiletics. 1899

1900 John W t . Davis,* D.D., Professor of New Testament Lit-
erature and Exegesis. 1902

1901 Samuel C. Byrd. A.M., Adjunct Professor in the Chair of

Pastoral Theology, Homiletics, and the English Bible. 1902

1902 Henry Alexander White,* A.M., Ph.D., D.D., LL.D.,

Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis 1926
1911 Thornton Whaling, D.D., LL.D., President of the Semi-
nary and Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology. 1921
1911 R. G. Pearson,* D.D., Professor of the English Bible. 1913

1913 James O. Reavis, D.D., LL.D., Professor of the English

Bible, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology.
1916 Edgar D. Kerr, B.D., D.D., Instructor in the Hebrew and

Greek Languages. 1921

1920 Hugh R. Murchison, B.D., D.D., Instructor in Missions. 1926

1920 Melton Clark, B.D., D.D., Professor of English Bible and

Religious Education.

1921 Edgar D. Kerr, B.D., D.D., Professor of Hebrew and Cog-

nate Languages.
1921 John M. Wells, A.M., Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., President of

the Seminary and Professor of Practical Theology. 1924

1921 James B. Green, D.D., Professor of Didactic and Polemic

Theology
1925 Richard f . Gillespie, B.D., D.D., LL.D.. President of the

Seminary.

1925 Charles C. McNeill, B.D., D.D.. Acting Professor of

Ecclesiastical History, Church Polity, Pastoral Theology

and Missions. 1927

1926 William C. Robinson, S.T.M., Professor of Ecclesiastical

History'. Church Polity and Missions.

1926 H. Waddell Pratt, D.D., Acting Professor of New Testa-

ment Literature and Exegesis. 1927

1927 Hunter B. Blakely, Th.D., Professor of New Testa-

ment Literature and Exegesis.

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Lecturers on the Thomas Smyth Foundation

Accessus Eritus

1911 Francis Land-ey 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 Leip-

sic, Germany. Subject: Theological Movements in Ger-
many 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. Sub-

ject: The Doctrine of the Christian Hope.

1915 Wieeiam Hoge Marquess,* D.D., LL.D., New York City.

Subject: The Period from Abraham to Joshua as Illus-
trated by the Results of Archaeological Discovery.

1916 J. Campbeee White, A.M., LL.D., Wooster, Ohio. Sub-

ject: Missions and Leadership.

1917 W. S. PeumEr Bryan,* D.D., Chicago, Illinois. Subject:

The Grace of God.

1918 Benjamin B. WarEiEEd,* D.D., LL.D., Princeton, New

Jersey. Subject: Counterfeit Miracles.

1919 Frances 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: Guid-

ing Girls to Christian Womanhood.

1921 Louis Matthews Sweet, S.T.D., Ph.D., New York. Sub-

ject: The Origin and Destiny of Man in the Light of
Scripture and Modern Thought.

1923 J. SproeE Lyons, D.D., Atlanta, Georgia. Subject: Ser-
monic Sources.

1923 L. E. McNair, D.D., Jacksonville, Florida. Subject:
Passion in Preaching.

1923 W. McF. Alexander, D.D., New Orleans, Louisiana. Sub-
ject : 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: Serm-
onizing.

1923 Dunbar H. Ogen, 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.

1925 SamuEe L. Morris, D.D., Atlanta, Georgia. Subject: The
Fact of Christianity.

1927 J. GrESHEm Machen, D.D., Princeton, New Jersey : Sub-
ject: The Virgin Birth.

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