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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.
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 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...
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 - CHICAGO THEOLOGICAL, SEMINARY, CHICAGO, ILL. Opened for Instruction, October, 1858. FACULTY. Rev. FRANKLIN WOODBURY FISK, DD, LL. D., President, and Wisconsin Professor of Sacred Rhetoric. Rev. GEORGE N. BOARDMAN, DD, LL. D., Emeritus Professor of Systematic Theology. 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...
Page 19 - ... Hebrew and Greek. Those who wish to pursue post-graduate or advanced studies, or the study of works in German, or of the Chaldee, Syriac, or Arabic languages, are offered special assistance. EXAMINATIONS. — In each year there are two public examinations, oral and written, of all the classes: the first during the week before the twenty-first day of December, and the second during the week before the Anniversary in April. The Alumni Institute will be held this year on Anniversary week, April...
Page 20 - The instruction eivcn 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...
Page 18 - Seminary, where the professor of church history conducts a "Historical Society." in which he reads with the students of all classes who may desire It selections from patristic works, eg First Apology of Justin Martyr.
Page 6 - REV. G. BUCKINGHAM WILLCOX, DD, STONE PROFESSOR OF PASTORAL THEOLOGY AND SPECIAL STUDIES.

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