# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S555
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3. Laboratories

A parallel condition exists with respect to the laboratories. ay
science courses. While Synod contributes $250 annually, the colle
quite generally charge wholly inadequate amounts to student:
_laboratory. See Table 28. At least $5 for each science coui

and for occasional new equipment if the courses are to be ‘6 co)
acceptable quality. Where classes are small (schools with less ;
50 students), additional funds will be necessary.

If the reports made by science teachers are correct, several col
do not annually make available a major portion of the funds de
nated for science laboratories, with the result that instructi
standards are at times very poor and the equipment third rate.. Synod
should insist that adequate annual expenditures are made for scié:
laboratory courses.

Some years ago Synod provided generous amounts for basic scie
equipment at practically all of the institutions. It would seem: t :
a good policy to expect the schools themselves to maintain this eq
ment from local student fees. A part of the annual fees shoul

replacement, instrument repair; etc. The earmarked funds shouli
made available when needed. The current practice, not considei
proper, is to add all unexpended balances in all funds to the gene
fund at the close of the fiscal year.

We suggest that Synod discontinue the annual contributions: :
Jaboratories. As with the library appropriations, they shoul
‘lumped and made available to those colleges that require basic la’
tory equipment, such as tables, chairs, piping, electric lines, cabin
etc. Synod would thus have better control over the purpose
which appropriations are expended, and all of the schools woul
have satisfactory science laboratories. At the same time it sho
be insisted that adequate charges be made to students for each scie
course. $5 per course should be minimum. ‘

4. General Instructional Equipment

A different situation exists in the field of general classroom equ
ment. Fees are not customarily charged to students for this purpo
Synod has made little provision for the acquisition of modern instr¢
tional aids. In consequence, the colleges have not generally avai
themselves of modern devices for improving their instruction.
might enumerate the following: speech-training equiprfent (s
recorder and reproducer); sound motion picture Projector, 1
accessible for classroom instruction during daylight hours; a: lik
of good educational films, owned by Synod and made availabl
all the schools, or funds «for rental from commercial distri
display cases and a live, usable collection of exhibits—not. m
curios; an extensive collection of reproductions of masteérpie