GENERAL INFORMATION
Civic Objectives: The College holds to the conv1ct1on that the good Christian is likewise a good citizen of the State. It teaches. both by precept and example. that good citizens respect authority and submit to the laws of the land. The College encourages the students to participate actively. \\'hile in coll ege and throughout life, in the development of the genera l welfare of their fellowmen, both in community and national life. It further seeks to instill a genuine concern for the general welfare of mankind the world around. Cultural Objectives: The College seeks to provide stud ents with a wholesome cultural program which will inculcate an appreciation for th e finer things of life as exp ressed in the fine arts, literature, history, and the civ ilizati ons 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 home. local church, and commun it y. The program is further designed 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 examp les and leaders 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 commi tment to the claims of Christ; a comprehensive knowledge 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 end uement with power by the infilling of the Holy Spirit, expressi ng itself in Christian love for all men and a desire for their salvation. Vocational Objectives: The College seeks to provide th orough preparatory t1 amrng m those areas of its curriculum in which s tud ents may desire to pursue graduate work leading to a profession . It seeks also to provide adequate terminal training in those area_s of its curri culum which are designed to prepare students for their life work . BOOK STORE The school operates the Biola Book Room. which handl es the textbooks used in all classes. THE LIBRARY The Biola Library is under a unifi ed administration, and the main col lection serves all Biola schools. Departmental collections are also maintained for The School of Missionary Medicine and Talbot Theological Seminary. The School of Missionary Medicine co llec tion is housed on the ninth floor of Lyman Stewart Hall at 558 So. Hope Street in Los Angeles. The Seminary collection is housed in an alcove off the main reading room of the Rose Memorial Library on the La Mirada campus. Present holdings of the BIOLA Library include about 65,000 volumes and some 450 curren t periodicals 15
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