# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S463
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Report of Board for Higher Education ; 463

‘al influences. With the current stress. also, on the social
the’ literatures, science, and the humanities, the student at
College is at a distinct disadvantage. Objective. evidence
correctness of this estimate, is afforded by the Cooperative
£1941, Scores on all parts of the Contemporary Affairs Test
of the Fine Arts and Current Social Problem Tests were much
y average. The human resources of St. Paul’s could be used to
greater advantage in places where cultural opportunities are

For the sake of balance, we should record that St. Paul’s Congrega-
Concordia, Mo., 1s flourishing, that in Greek and Latin the |
le performs exceptionally well, and that the losses between
mtry: to the college freshman class and-entry to St. Louis are
‘kably low. . ,
(should also be stated that the costs to the student are very low
‘Paul’s. Concordia, Mo., is situated in a low living cost area.
rcumstance, however, is not without its disadvantage, since low
ding charges are usually accompanied by such low charges for
ational services that these services are inadequate in numerous

Table 12 .

Student Expenses Including Lodging
and Meals Per Year

" 1911-12
_ 1921-22
1931-32
1942-43

“Another unfavorable factor is found in the education laws of the
State of Missouri. They present a number of very difficult obstacles
accreditation. As a consequence, the high school. division can
ardly maintain the minimum standard of acceptability with the
State University. The possibility of accrediting the junior’ college
{ivision is most remote. A sine qua non for junior college accredita-
n is an adequate enrollment, ca. 50 students, This number of
‘pretheological students cannot and should not be present in the college
idivision of St. Paul’s. But to increase. the enrollment by expanding
“college division into -general education appears fruitless, even if
‘were financially possible and academically sound.

further compelling reason for the recommendation to close
cordia is to be found in its partly obsolete plant. The most

‘Kaeppel Memorial Gymnasium. Both are eighteen years old. The
iing hall is forty years old, the former dormitory fifty to sixty
rs-old:; The classroom building, the most important on any

mpus, was built in 1906.

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ent structures on the campus are the Biltz Hall Dormitory and the’

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epeated. Presenting more inadequacies than any other administra- —

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