# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S480
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480 \ Report of Board for Higher Education

your Board could not find that any of the survey facts or conclu

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had been successfully controverted in the open hearing.
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_ Nevertheless, your Board is keenly aware of a paradox in many:
the reactions to the findings and recommendations concerning thi
Springfield Seminary. On the one, hand, a painstaking survey, whi
sought to make a thorough, honest, and unprejudiced appraisal -
Springfield’s position in Synod’s educational organization, has yield
_the ‘coriclusion that the continuation of a seminary in Springfield
not advisable.’ On the other hand, the enthusiasm and deep concerr
with which those who are ‘most directly attached to, or associatedga
with, Springfield contend for its continuation as a seminary is equal
plain. Whether the latter interests shall outweigh the educationa
factors involved is a question which your Board for Higher Educa
tion does not feel commissioned to decide. The problem is one

which your Board respectfully calls attention and which. it musta
submit to Synod for decision. |

ae ACTION OF SYNOD

The recommendations concerning the seminary at Springfield, - p
61-62, were not adopted by. Synod. The’ convention adopted the;
recommendations of Committee 1 and resolved: . , :

1, That Springfield be retained as a training school for pastors,
its enrollment, however, to be restricted to students from specia
gtoups, such as foreign tongue, Finnish, Slovak, etc. advanice:
age, and such as have limited aptitude for ancient languages. ;

2, That the minimum entrance age for 1945 be eighteen years;
for 1946 nineteen years; and thereafter twenty years; such limita
. tions, however, not to affect existing agreements with sister synods,

3. That no additional college year be added and no additiona)
building be erected by Synod. ‘