1918-1919 Academic Catalog

DESCRIPTION OF COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL STUDIES ot all these courses are given every year, some being given every second or third year, according to the demand for them. t some time in his course each student is thus given an op– portunity to elect any of these courses that he desires and for which he is fitted. ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATING PROFESSOR ALLEN 1. ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATING-Argumentation, evidence, persuasion. Brief-drawing. Written arguments. bating. The theory of argumentation. Text: Ketcham. Three hours a week throughout the year. ASTRONOMY PROFESSOR JURKAT analysis, Oral de– Required. 2. DESCRIPTIVE ASTRONOMY-The planets and their move– ments, the sun, meteors, comets, and other heavenly bodies. Text: Comstock. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester. BIBLE PROFESSOR ALLEN 3. OLD TESTAMENT-Patriarchal and Hebrew History, poetry, and prophecy. Texts: the Bible, Steele's Outlines, and Blaikie's Man– ual of Bible History. Elective. Three hours a week throughout the year. 4. NEW TESTAMENT-The life of Christ, the Acts of the Apostles, the life of Paul, the epistles and Revelation. Texts: the Bible, Steele's Outlines, Stalker's Life of Christ, Gilberts' Life of Paul. Elective. Three hours a week throughout the, year. 5. THE PSALMS-From the critical, historical, literary, ethical, and religious standpoints. Text: the New Century Bible. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester. 6. JOHN'S GOSPEL-A detailed study for the purpose of inculcat– ing its great spiritual truths and giving practical training in the art of Biblical interpretation. Elective. Three hours a week, one semes– ter. 7. BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY-The testimony of the monuments to the truth of the Scriptures. Text: Price's The Monuments and the Bible, or Barton's Archaeology and the Bible. Elective. One hour a week throughout the year. 8. BIBLICAL CUSTOMS-The light shed upon the Bible by East– ern manners and customs. Text: Rice's Orientialisms in Bible Lands. Elective. One hour a week throughout the year. 9. BIBLICAL SOCIOLOGY-Modern social problems interpreted in the light of the Bible. Text: Kents' Social Teachings of the Prophets and Jesus. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester. 30