# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S492
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

‘and distinctively Lutheran foundations.

' For the present, Synod decided to continue its system of ministe

’ a junior college campus, plus four years at our St. Louis Semina

492 Report of Board for Higher Education

Synod will avoid all hasty responses to changing conditions in
educational world and will build ‘its Program of education on sol

For the year 1940 the totals consist of 258 publicly contro
junior colleges enrolling 140,545 students, and 317 private junigt
colleges, with 56,165 students. ;

ACTION OF SYNOD
(Regarding “F. Summary”)

training, consisting of four years of high school, two years of college:
the first year of which is rich in cultural content. On the basis

the present ministerial curriculum our St. Louis faculty is entit
to confer, and is now conferring, the A.B. degree.

’ The Board for Higher Education was requested to make furthe
studies regarding the advisability of changing over to a four-y.
college course in preparation for entrance upon a three-year courg

in theology in St. Louis-and to submit a report with recommenda?
tions to Synod in 1947,