Cultural Objectives : The College seeks to provide students with a wholesome cultural program which will inculcate an appreciation for the finer things of life as expressed in the fine arts, literature, history, and the civ ilizations of peoples and nations both past and present. Social Objectives : The College seeks to provide the students with a well-rounded social program that will develop personality and fit them in a normal and whole some manner to take their places in the home, local church, and community. The program is further desi gned to develop and maintain hi gh moral standards in the lives of the students, for their own benefit and in order that they might serve as wholesome examples and leader s wherever they may live and work. Spiritual Objectives : The College aims to send forth men and women who express through their lives a complete and valid commitment to the claims of Christ; a comprehensive knowl edge of the Word of God, with ability to use it in all walks of life in leading men to Christ and, with wisdom, to teach it to believers that they may grow in grace; and an enduement with power by the infilling of the Holy Spirit, expr ess ing itself in Christian love for a ll men and a desire for their salvation. The College seeks to provide thorough preparatory train ing in those areas of its curriculum in which students may desire to pursue gr aduate work leading to a profession. It seeks also to provide adequate terminal training in those areas of its curriculum which are designed to prepare students for their life work. Vocational Objectives: BOOK STORE Biola College maintains a book store wher e t ext books, paper backs, school sup plies, Christian recordings, visual aid material s, and other items may be pur chased. THE LIBRARY The Biola library is under a unified administration, and the main collection serves Biola College and Talbot Theological Seminary. The Seminary collection is housed in an alcove off the main r eading room of the Rose Memorial Library. Present holdings of the Biola library include 85,000 volumes and 650 current periodicals, with a total of 1300 periodicals, including back runs. In auxiliary collections are to be found pamphlet fil es and a curri culum and unit co llection for the Education and the Christian Education Departments. A number of spe cial indexes provide access to volumes 1-50 of The King's Business magazine and to partial runs of other periodical s, to songs and hymns , sermons and sermon outlines, homiletic and poetic illustrations, and similar materials. The main public catalog and other card files contain approximately 265 ,000 cards.
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