Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin, 19, number 3, January 1927

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Columbia Theological
Seminary

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
FOUNDED IN 1828

Opens in Atlanta
September 14, 1927

THE COLUMBIA SEMINARY BULLETIN
Published Quarterly by the Seminary

VOL. XIX JANUARY. 10 27 NO. 3

.' as Second Clans Matter July 11th, 10 8, at the Postoffice at Columbia,
South Carolina, under the Act of July 16th. 1894

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ATLANTA

u ATLANTA KNOWS HOW TO DO BIG THINGS.

*AYhen it wants something it goes after it, and it
generally gets what it wants. Not many years ago the
Presbyterians of that city wanted a Presbyterian Univer-
sity. They got together and went after it, and they have
Oglethorpe University. More recently these same Pres-
byterians wanted a theological seminary. They went after
Columbia Seminary, and the next session of that famous
old Seminary will be held in the handsome new buildings
being erected in one of Atlanta's attractive suburbs. Re-
cently the business men of that city said they wanted more
people in Atlanta and more business. They went after
them and they are getting them. Last year they contrib-
uted $250,000 to tell the rest of the country about the
attractions of Atlanta as a home and its advantages for
business. This fund was evidently wisely spent, for we
are told that through this advertising campaign 152 new
manufacturing and business plants were brought to the
city during the year. Along with them will come 10,000
people, who will draw a pay roll of $8,000,000 a year.
Truly "it pays to advertise." But Atlanta's business men
were not satisfied. They determined to do bigger things,
and so recently in fifteen days they raised $1,000,000 to
be used this year [during next three years] in continuing
and enlarging their advertising campaign. These things
were done in Atlanta by the united effort of those inter-
ested. Oglethorpe University and Columbia Seminary
were secured by the united effort and the liberal gifts of
the Presbyterians of that city. The advertising funds
were secured by the united efforts and the liberal gifts of
all the people. If this same spirit could be engendered
into all of the 465,000 members of our Church, there is
no telling what could be done."

Leading editorial from The Presbyterian of
the South, Richmond, Virginia, Jan. 12, 1927.

// the Church wishes to develop in its 465,000 members the
spirit which "Knows how to do big tilings," let the leaders of
the Church he trained by Columbia Seminary, in ATLANTA.

FACULTY AND FIELD

DR. MCNEILL

DR. PRATT

NEW SCHEDULE ADOPTED

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

The Present I 'lax embraces thirty-three calendar weeks dis-
tributed as follows :

To open and close 1 week

Examinations 4 weeks

I tolidays 2 weeks

Recitations 26 weeks

Total 33 weeks

Total number recitation hours 1236

The Plan Proposed embraces thirty-six calendar weeks dis-
tributed as follows :

To open and close 1 week

Examinations 3 weeks

1 tolidays 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 present plan.

5 Logical sequence of related subjects.

6 Equal daily distribution of work throughout the year.

7 ( )pportunity for preparation and review, in the depart-
ment of X. T. Exegesis, by unprepared men.

8 An open Monday, without congestion on other days.

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

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

Junior Year

Fall Quarter
Hebrew

History
Homiletics

Winter Quarter
Hebrew

History
Eng. Bible

Spying Quarter
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Middle Year
Fall Quarter
O. T. Exegesis
History
Eng. Bible

HI liter Quarter
O. T. Exegesis
N. T. Exegesis
Eng. Bible

Spring Quarter

O. T. Exegesis
N. T. Exegesis
Theology

Senior Year
Fall Quarter
N. T. Exegesis
Theology
Past'l Theology

Winter Quarter
N. T. Exegesis
Theology

Ethics

Spying Quarter
Theology
Education
Apologetics

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VALUE OF COURSES
In Terms of Recitation Hours

Present Plan Proposed Plan

Hebrew 130 150

O. T. Exegesis 156 150

N. T. Exegesis 208 200

Theology 170 200

History :

History 156

Polity 14

Missions 26 196 200

Eng. Bible 208 200

Homiletics 40 50

Education 26 50

Apologetics 52 50

Ethics 24 50

Past'l Theology 26 50

Total 1236 1350

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. llomiletics, one quarter, English Bible, four quarters,
Systematic Theology, four quarters.

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gins in the Junior Class, at the opening of the Seminary
in the fall, and one course follows another through the
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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.

XOTES OX 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
during 1926-27 most of work required during two quar-
ters of Middle year. Will complete work in X. T.
Exegesis 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 provide> for completion of all Senior courses
as originally planned for this c 1 ass.

CHOOSING THE BEST METH< -

In presenting th hedule which is i i in the

preceding pages, the Faculty '.umbia Seminar}' 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 pi gress, 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 "THEO-

L -ICAL EDUCATION IX AMERICA.'" in discussing the
programs : : one hundred sixty-three Theological Semin
in the United States and Canada, which were included in his
survey of Theological Educe. says:

"A simple illustration of the y | e : work required
with the present curricula grows out of the ex-:
in many programs of study of a multitude of highly
difYerentiated courses carrying one or two hours cred-
its, with the attendant requirement that the student
must carry fifteen hour- >f work. The existence
so many such courses is presumptively a serious le-
terrent to the unity which a curriculum should
achieve. Seminary faculties would do well to adcr-
themselves to the problems - iination of sub-

ject-matter and continuity of study without which
unity certainly is impossible. Some seminary pro-
gt ms appear to have been constructed with a -
roviding :' r l series on many subjects of wee
or semi-weekly sermor-

Those who read carefully the material presented in this
pamphlet will at once see that the practice which Dr. Kelly
condemns as "deadening" and also "deterrent" is avoided in
the plan proposed. The change proposed brings the Seminary
into line with the present practice in the best postgra I
schools.