The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-08-29

promoting the college Of religious in
struction on plan that fits into tht
university school OF organization and
supplies the faculty group not provided
Tor on state, or civic. basis Of support
simply because we i'm America have
set this limit, and we think wisely
TO the institutional use Of public
money.
While Wesley college is open to
all students, the very nature Of its
expert instruction indicates that min
isterial students will register for more
or It's courses than will be taken by
the average college student intending
to qualify for profession represent
ed by another college in the univer-
sity group. This leads clearly to the
reasonable expectation that graduates
This is affected through contact OF
ministers. Others may attend in
| larger numbers than prospective min
listers, but when they come to gradu-
alton they viii offer the roll of their
respective colleges and their work in
Wesley college will be recorded as
within the elective courses upon
which credits for graduation from
those various university colleges are
reckoned.
Every university college likewise
teaches many more students than APP
tar among its graduates; its class
room instruction may be distributed
through all the groups graduating in
the other colleges. Thus the contri-
button OF each college reappears in
the total product of the university.
This is AFFECTED through contact Of
students with students, Of students
with teachers and by mutual exchange
of ideas between faculty members
wherein each is effected in communion
with all.
''Whiles therefore, Wesley college
will have a limited list of graduates,
these will represent only the profess
sional product, representative of spe-
cialized training similar to that which
appears in graduates of colleges
of mines or of engineering. 1t is this
expert instruction given by Wesley
college that equalizes the opportunity
OF the ministerial student at the state
university as compared with the stu
dent who may be preparing for a civic
profession. The ministerial graduate
Is the distinctive professional prod
uct from the church college affiliated
with the state university, but 1t is also
to be counted in the total university
community as contributing factor
Under this plan ministerial stu
dents now appear in a state univer-
sity with an at-home feeling as they
mingle In common classes and COM
mon activities with university chums
preparing for other professions, and
now for the first time in American
education students are free to enjoy
the rich endowment of the state uni
versity while at the same time priv
ileged to enroll under professions that
are appointed to give instruction in
tended to equip the religious leader
for his life work.
The preacher is in one educational
community with the lawyer, doctor,
teacher and engineer of his genera
ton and withall of whom he must
ton and with all of whom hem ust
Grafton II he is to be an effective
worker in any community that calls
him to pastoral activity. This theory
is working out as outlined. and the
ministerial graduates of Wesley col
lege have university fellowship as
well as the distinctive college group
Ing. They are enjoying the best that
state and church can offer so related
that neither is lost to gain the other.
They may take one-fourth OF their
work in Wesley college and have it
counted toward graduation from the