MEMOIRS BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT EMERITUS
June 20, 1986 Page 6 - Tape 2
accreditation. Without exception, they thought that it would be a wonderful accomplishment, and that they had met with missionaries from England, Europe and a few from the United States who had collegiate training. None of them had training as thorough as Biola's alumni but at least they had some Bible training. They could put the degree B.A. after their names when they graduated. Further, they said that the natives did not begin to understand what B.A. meant. All that they knew was that these missionaries had gone to some school called a college or a university and had gotten a degree. They also realized that some of their native young men had finished all of the training they could get in their own land, and they left and went to a school in England, Europe or the United States, stayed there a certain number of years, and when they went back to their native land to their own people, they could put the letters B.A. behind their name, meaning something they had achieved for four years or more of collegiate work.
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