# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S51
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 51

blications issuing from Concordia Publishing House. This re-
uires.time in the schedule of all faculty members. "
We are facing the next academic year without sufficient staffing.
The incoming class will number 124 men. This will necessitate
,g.division into three sections in the Hebrew, Greek, and German
Theological Literature courses and four sections in Homiletics.
‘ in these courses, instructors cannot possibly accomplish what is
expected of them with classes numbering over 60 men. With all
e present faculty members carrying the teaching load expected of
them, and some of them an even heavier load, we find ourselves
without instructors for fifteen hours in the Old Testament Depart-
ment, two hours in Logic or Philosophy, and three hours in German
* Theological Literature in the fall semester, and in the spring
‘semester two hours in New Testament in place of the three hours
_ in German. In other words, the Seminary needs two professors for
“twenty hours in the first semester and for nineteen hours in the
second semester of the academic year, September, 1947, to June,
; 1948. Men entering upon the work at the Seminary cannot, as
” a rule, immediately assume a teaching load of ten hours per week.
It must also be remembered that the growth of the Graduate
“and Correspondence Schools is increasingly demanding the time
-of our professors, and a few are especially burdened with editorial
‘and administrative work (Graduate and Correspondence Schools).
If Synod desires the expansion of the work offered in the Graduate
‘and Correspondence Divisions, a sufficient staffing of the faculty
is a necessity. The one cannot be‘done without the other being done.

The Board of Control therefore requests the Honorable Synod
to. grant at least two additional professorships to Concordia

Seminary. Tue Boarp or Controt oF ConcorpIA SEMINARY
Georce W. Wirtmer, Secretary

STRENGTHENING THE MISSION DEPARTMENT
AT CONCORDIA SEMINARY, ST. LOUIS
(Memorial 118)

Supporting the request of the Board of Control of Concordia
Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri — “for adequate housing facilities
for missionaries and their families; for an increased annual appro-
priation to the Pritzlaff Memorial Library, so that the Mission
Department section of the same may be built up; and for power
to engage additional help for the Mission Department as this help is
needed” — we, the Office of the Secretary of Missions, the Board
of Foreign Missions, the Board for South American Missions, the
Board for Home Missions of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of
Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, and the Plenary Mission Board
of the Synodical Conference beg leave to submit the following: