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Page 15 - ADMISSION. — The Seminary is open to students of all denominations. Candidates for admission to the regular course must be of good moral character, and must have received a collegiate education, or an equivalent preparation for theological studies. Students from other theological seminaries may be admitted, and applicants to advanced standing.
Page 21 - The instruction eriven to the students in these departments is similar to that of the special [English] course, and it is expected that they will, as far as possible, attend lectures in the middle and senior years with the regular classes. It is required, also, that all foreign students shall take at least two exercises a week each year in their own languages. They are allowed to omit in the English course, in the first year, homiletics and natural theology ; in the second year, Old Testament introluction:...
Page 17 - ... critical examination of his volumes of discourses. COURSE OF STUDY. 1. Synthesis of a sermon, and exercises in making and criticising plans of sermons — topical, textual, inferential and expository — with private criticism of sermons, Middle year, first term. Thursday and Friday, 9-10 am 2. Analysis of a sermon and a discussion of each of its principal parts; methods of composing and delivering sermons. Sermons and plans by the class, criticised both in the class-room and in private. Delivery...
Page 21 - manifest and growing needs" the Gorman department of the Chicago Theological Seminary was opened in 1882, the Dano-Norwegian in 1884, and the Swedish in 1885. "The German department is in close connection with the German Seminary at Crete, Nebr., and has already received students from it. The Swedish department has the approval of many of the Swedish churches in this country, both among those which are independent and those which Ьзlong to the
Page 21 - ... German department is in close connection with the German Seminary at Crete, Nebr., and has already received students from it. The Swedish department has the approval of many of the Swedish churches in this country, both among those which are independent and those which belong to the ' forbunclet.' The Dano-Norwegian department has no ecclesiastical connections. It originated in the suggestion of a banker in Chicago, a Norwegian by birth, who has rendered it pecuniary aid.
Page 21 - SCIIOOLS. to those who are not familiar with that language by Rev. Reinert August Jernberg, a native of Norway, a graduate of Yale College and of Chicago Theological Seminary. The Slavic department of the Oberlin Seminary was opened at the...
Page 24 - CORPORATE NAME. In all notes, deeds, and bequests to the Seminary, the full corporate name should be used, namely: "THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CHICAGO THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
Page 15 - Lecture Term " and the " Reading Term," the Lecture Term commencing the Wednesday succeeding the second Tuesday in September, and continuing until the Wednesday or Thursday succeeding the second Tuesday in May; the Reading Term extending from the second Wednesday in June to the commencement of the Lecture Term. There are two vacations each year. The first extends two weeks from the 2ist of December; the second, from the end of the Lecture Term to the beginning of the Reading Term.
Page 6 - Rev. SAMUEL IVES CURTISS, PH. D., DD, New England Professor of Old Testament Literature and Interpretation. Rev. G. BUCKINGHAM WILLCOX, DD, Stone Professor of Congregational History, Church Polity and Special Studies. Rev. HUGH MCDONALD SCOTT, DD, Sweetzer and Michigan Professor of Ecclesiastical History. Rev.
Page 22 - SEMINARY GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS. — The Seminary grounds front Union Park, in the West Division of the city. The location is pleasant and healthful, removed from the busier parts of the city, and yet connected with the centre of business by several lines of city railway, the Seminary buildings — Keyes Hall and Carpenter Hall — are arranged according to approved models (each study having two bedrooms attached), and accommodate about eighty students. COURSE OF STUDY. — The Junior year has four...

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