# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S93
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 91

education, and safety for graduation and for certification of the '

school. Under this arrangement, Synod is, for the present, spared

the expense of providing a teacher who has been certificated for F

health and physical education. 7
2. Indiana requires that an accredited high school have a trained

a trained librarian is borne by Synod and the High School ir
Association.

3. Synod is recognizing the fact that the music training of its i
future ministers should not be a haphazard affair, but should be
in the hands of a trained music teacher. Indiana requires certifica-
tion for music instructors. It is not economical to place at a synod-
ical school of less than 300 students a man who devotes all his i
time to music, but with the High School Association’s support, i
Synod gets the service of a trained music teacher at less than one i
third the cost.

4. The same thing applies to the direction of athletics and
athletic coaching, the combination reduces the expense.

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librarian in charge of the library work. The expense of such ii
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5. To the extent that student affairs are regulated and con-
trolled by students, the ministerial students must learn to co-
operate with the non-ministerials on the boards and counsels
where both have seat and voice, thus the future pastors learn
from the beginning the art of working together with the future laity.

6. Combination of the two schools on the same campus enables |
the faculty to control more than would otherwise be possible the |
social activities of the ministerials. School parties and class parties |
are automatically under the control of the faculty, something that
cannot be carried out in extraschool parties.

op. 7, The combined school makes it possible to maintain a chorus
e which sings sufficiently well to enable it to take longer trips.
The ministerial school alone could not duplicate that work.

8. During the past eleven years the High School Association
has done extensive remodeling in old Hanser Hall. Had this not
been done, Synod would have been called upon for large repairs
or find that today it had on its hands a building about ready to
be scrapped.

9. As an independent school, ministerial Concordia cannot hope
to secure accreditation from the North Central Association. North
Central works through the State accrediting agencies. Indiana
accredits no school which offers only one course of study — as our
ministerial school would do.

An evaluation of the foregoing matters should establish the
following contentions: