# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S543
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542 Report of Board for Higher Education

is, however, considerable variation from school to school in the inte
gence quotient of entering’ groups. Some areas consistently co
tribute applicants comparatively low in intelligence rating. (
these are admitted. Most of them are gradually sloughed off as th
struggle through the curriculum, but a few survive in the final <
mination of their endeavors. ‘Usually the elimination of this typ
is almost completely accomplished before the college level is reachec

intelligence rating markedly superior to that of the average -colleg
freshman in this country. A close scrutiny ‘of an applicant’s intel!
gence score and other qualifications that will insure successful acco
plishment of the institution’s educational and social demands seems!
to be in order. A recently devised form covering all necessary da

of an applicant’s eligibility to admission wil] greatly aid our institu;
tions in obtaining a select body of students.

Cc. Dormitory Life

Socially the students at the majority of Synod’s institutions ar
not paragons of refinement, courtesy, good manners, and other lik
characteristics of well-bred youth. Adolescent ebullience, teen-agi
indifference to the amenities, and a flair for copying the social crudi.
ties of the varsity campus may be tolerantly urged as extenuating
motives for conduct wholly incompatible with the character and high
aims of a Christian school. These are contributive factors, no doubt
but the main causation lies largely in the lack of a planned develop-
ment of student leadership, in the want of a program of student cou -
seling, and in the laxity of faculty supervision of all student activitiés, »
particularly in the dormitory, often the fertile source of objectionable
behavior patterns. Placing a young instructor or an upper classman'
in charge of a dormitory housing 50-100 lively boys is an expedient:
that cannot achieve desirable results in student training beyond ‘a:
semblance of quiet and orderliness. The approach to this problem
lies in the provision of Proper dormitory personnel, a matron. f
the lower high school dormitory, and a housemaster. for the college
dormitory, both mature, capable persons devoted to the cause, |

D. Student Employment

While our students have always engaged to a moderate extent
remunerative off-campus employment, the Present labor shortage
opened up unlimited opportunities to them to increase their incom
on time borrowed from their school obligations. In most of our co
leges a large percentage of students are now in gainful, part-tim
employment ‘off the campus.- The situation constitutes a serious:
problem, involving careful study of individual necessity for ‘such!
work and in all permissible instances strict regulations pertain
to the kind of work conformable to the institution’s character an
requirements, and to.a proper apportionment. of the time’ a stud