# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S473
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“ Report of Board for Higher. Education , 473
dd mriay not have been aware of the changes in the age of
dents who. enter several of the preparatory schools nor of
““provisions which: several of them’ have made for such:
udents. Increasing numbers of young. men attend public
igh schools and then enter our preparatory colleges. At least
iree of the preparatory colleges, widely separated geograph-
cally, have set up special curricula for. them on the college

., Accelerated courses are provided in. Religion, Latin,
erman, and Greek, and, ordinarily, these late entrants have
een adequately trained for the St. Louis Seminary after three
years in the college division. The three institutions: Con-
‘cordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.; St. John’s College, Winfield,
-Kans.; and Concordia Collegiate Institute, Bronxville, N.. Y.,
“have been very successful with this program of work. ;

thus by circumstances beyond their control, the preparatory. col-
‘s-have ‘undertaken to train a portion of the very group which
igfield now also serves. Since both Concordia Collegiate In- |
, Bronxville, N. Y., and St. John’s College, Winfield, Kans.,.
st. provide a number of these special courses for the general non-
Slogical students, no increase in staff was necessary to ‘provide
the training of this special group of pretheological students. Nor
t interfered in any way with the orderly progress of the major
{ of these schools. It is unquestionably true that the preparatory
ege-St. Louis program for these special students is more difficult
an passage through Springfield, but the end product is also of .
perior quality. :
“The extent to which Springfield’s entering group consists of recent
igh school graduates and, correspondingly, the extent to which the
»preparatory colleges might undertake the training of this group will
‘become apparent by an examination of two recent entering classes
t Springfield—classes of 1941 and 1942.

942 Entering Class ' ;

In 1942 Springfield admitted 38 students; 22 of these had only a
igh school education. Sixteen. had spent some time in various
olleges, ; . . :

The age distribution of the high school group at the time of entry
as the following: : : ‘

ABO oeecceeceeeceeeceeees 17 18 19 20 - 22

The high school averages of this ‘group were:

Grade ......ecceeeeceseeeeeeees Excetient’ Good Average Poor
No. of students............ 4 9 4 - 5

. Excluding poor students and those beyond age 20 (total of seven ;
“students), there remained: fifteen: students who presumably could’
“have entered those of our preparatory schools which have the ‘special.