Report on the Commission on Christian Higher Education in India. An Enquiry Into The Place of the Christian College in Modern India

Miller's view of the function of the colleges. 22 (2) The report of the deputation of the Free Church of Scotland. 23 (3) The report of the delegation of the Church Missionary Society. 26 III. [...] THE OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN COLLEGES AND THE CHANGES NEEDED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. 144 I. THE PRINCIPLES DETERMINING THE CONTENT OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION. 144 (I) The meaning of Christian education. 144 (2) Needed emphases in contemporary education. 147 (3) The central place of history in the curriculum of the Christian colleges. 148 2. REASONS FOR BELIEVIN [...] PART II AN ANALYSIS AND APPRAISAL OF THE COLLEGES AS THEY ARE CHAPTER II THE CHRISTIAN COLLEGES AND THE QUESTIONS THEY RAISE I. A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE CHRISTIAN COLLEGES TO-DAY THE members of the Commission were in the fortunate position of being able before they landed in India to survey by means of the information supplied in the answers to the questionnaire the general outlines of the posi [...] The difference between north and south India in this respect is brought out by the fact that the proportion of Christian students in the colleges in Madras Presidency and the Madras States is one-fourth of the total number of students in these colleges while in the colleges of the north only 6 per cent of the students in the Christian colleges are Christians. [...] ' Detailed figures in regard to the staffs the students and the finances of the colleges as discovered from the questionnaire will be found in the Appendix."THE COLLEGES AS THEY ARE 17 The obstacles in the way of giving to the students an education that was culturally of value and that could fulfil its Christian purpose were increased by the financial diffculties of the colleges.