# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S57
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 57

INSTITUTE FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDY AND RESEARCH
(Memorial 120)

The Kansas District petitions Synod to consider the establish-

ent and maintenance of an Institute for Postgraduate Study and

esearch.

This Institute is to serve the following purposes:

*, The organization and direction of research for such purposes

as the publication of scholarly books, treatises, and articles in the

various fields of theological learning, the direction of synodical

_ activities, the specialized study of urgent problems confronting

the Church in its various activities, etc.

Such projects as the following would come within the scope
of the Institute: the publication of a commentary or other literary
works of a scientific nature; the gathering and interpretation of
factual material on foreign countries for the use of the various
Boards of Foreign Missions; studies in such current problems
as the Church and the laboring man or the family problem in
present-day America; special projects related to elementary and
higher education, etc.

2. The development of higher levels of scholarship in the
clergy and the teaching profession through a system of the fellow-
ships awarded by the Institute to pastors, teachers, and professors.
These fellowships would be’ employed:

a. In the research projects of the Institute;

b. In graduate study at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis;

c. In attendance at designated institutions outside our own
Church.

We suggest that the control and administration of the Institute
be vested in the graduate faculty of the St. Louis Seminary.
This directing body would

a. Inaugurate, organize, and direct research projects;

b. Establish research fellowships and appoint research fellows;

c. Establish and award fellowships for postgraduate study not
immediately connected with the projects of the research institute,
but serving the general purpose of developing a diversified higher
level of scholarly training in the clergy and teaching profession
of our Church; ,

d. Direct and supervise the specialized training of men who
have been called for service in our educational institutions a6
assistants or permanently called members of the faculties, at least
until they have gained the minimum scholastic qualifications for

the positions which they are to hold.

In considering the question of eligibility for the fellowships