SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOG ICAL SEMINARY, located at Louisville, Ky. It was established by the Southern Baptists to provide an institution expressly for theological training and was opened in 1859 at Greenville, S. C. During the Civil War it was closed and reopened in 1865 under serious financial diffi culties. In 1877 it was removed to Louisville, but the financial resources were precarious until 1880 when a large donation was received and the success of the institution assured. The course of instruction is divided into the follow ing 10 schools: (1) Biblical introduction; (2) Old Testament interpretation; (3) New Testa ment interpretation; (4) systematic theology; (5) comparative religion and missions; (6) homiletics and elocution; (7) church history; (8) ethics and sociology; (9) pastoral theology; (10) Sunday school pedagogy. Of these schools, four have two departments; the school of Old Testament interpretation includes an English and a Hebrew department, the school of New Testament interpretation an English and a Greek department, the school of sys tematic theology a general course and a depart ment of Biblical theology, the school of church history, junior and senior departments, the He brew, Greek, Biblical theology and senior church history courses are intended for students who have had a higher education, some preparation in Greek being necessary for the Greek course.
There are also special courses for advanced work in each department. The degrees con ferred: Th.G. (graduate in theology), Th.B. (bachelor in theology), Th.M. (master in the °logy) and Th.D. (doctor in theology), the last for post-graduate work after the acquirement of the degree of Th.M. The buildings include New York Hall (a dormitory), Norton Hall, the Memorial Library Building and the gym nasium. The library in 1916 contained 25,000 volumes, the students numbered 341 and the faculty 11.