Did too many Jehovah's Witness kids get curious about wanting to go to a real college?
They really don't give an explanation, it's like old light and new light, one reads the new light, and
in the spirit of loyalty, the subject gets dropped, and there's no more talk about the old name again.
Knorr started it up in 1943, and after 1946 one never read about it as a 'College' again.
Was the 'College' name a scandal?
Perhaps Knorr thought that Jesus picking them in 1918 was the best “Accreditation” one needed?
WT 2/15/43 p 61
'This college is a gracious provision of Jehovah to that end,...
The word “ college” appears in the Bible record, at 2 Kings 2 2 .1 4 and 2 Chronicles 3 4 :2 2 ,
in connection with the typical Theocracy over the Israelites.
It was at the capital city, Jerusalem. The word “ college” is here translated from the Hebrew word
“ mishneh” , which means literally “ doubling or repeating”.
If the word here means an institution of learning, where the prophetess Huldah dwelt, then it marks
a “ college” as a place where instruction on special subjects is repeated but in an advanced and more
intensified m y so as to increase one’s familiarity, capacity and efficiency therein, and thus
doubling one’s ability.
It is a secondary institution, and hence farther advanced than a primary one.
Such, indeed, is the Watchtower Bible College of Gilead. It is so called because it is operated and
maintained by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., of New York, and the college faculty
of instructors are ordained ministers who are representatives of the Society.
Though listed according to the law of the land as a “ religious institution”, it is in fact a Christian
college for Bible training.'
