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

Wesley college affiliated with the
state university of Grand Forks, has
three distinct lines of activity. college
instruction. student residence halls
conservatory Of music" The forego-
ing statement was made to The Forum
by President Il. p. Robertson.
The department Of college instruc.
ton hts into the university plan OF
organization, and is cooperative. MOI
competitive in its purpose" continued
Mr. Robertson. Wesley college il
really 3 college OF religious literature
and philosophy and Is an addition 10
the colleges Of the university.
The term college has come to have
new significance in educational
thought The college of early DAYS
was the separate, complete school OF
coilege rank in which all students took
practically the same course through
four years of graduation. The students
completed their college course to-
gether and We're not divided into
groups representative of the various
intended professions.
The university of today is organ
lied with view to the occupations for
which 1t prepares the students who
come to it's lecture rooms, libraries ana
laboratories. The various professions
are represented by groups of teachers
who are specialists in their respective
departments.
The faculty group is given the
name college in the university. The
term college is therefore not to be
thought of as a complete independent
institution, but as a department with
distinct purpose, but intimately CO.
related with other departments in one
educational community
students of any one Of the univer-
sity colleges are under the instruction
Of certain professors who teach courses
included in all departments such as
English, mathematics, history. etc.
Then, too, the studies of any college
may offer courses that are listed as
electives and so open to students regis
tered in other groups.
BY reason of those various and in
innate relations of faculty instruction
students OF university often meet to-
gether in class room even though reg
istered under different colleges of the
university. Students in the college of
arts, the college of mines, college OF
engineering, teachers college. college
Of medicine or college of law, are all
university students, while, at the same
time, they are also classed under the
college, or faculty group, that is cal
culated to provide expert training for
their respective intended professions.
wesley college must be thought of
as college in this sense and not as
a separate and independent institu-
ton commonly supposed by MANY to
be the only institution that NAV prop
erly bear the name college. Wesley
college is a faculty group of experts
in a chosen department; 1t is a college
of religion. 1t is not a theological
school, for that name belongs to a
professional school intended exclusive
ly for ministers, while the classes in
Wesley college are open to all stud
ents. The courses in Wesley college
are offered as elective to students reg
istered undr several university colleges
on precisely the same plan that OBJ
tains with reference to the university
colleges and the electives they each
offer to students registered in some
one of the other colleges of the uni
versity.
I'm one fundamental respect Wesley
college is distinct from the university
colleges named above; it is not sup
ported by taxation, or by any public
funds Wesley college depends wholly
upon funds contributed by generously
disposed people who are interested in