# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S140
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

188 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

efficiency of our Colegio have been increased, the general health
of student body and faculty has been excellent, the support of
the congregations in the District has been exceptionally good.

The enrollment statistics for the last four years are as follows:

Prima-Secunda —.___...... 1944.4 1945__ 4

Tertia-Quarta 1944.4 1945.4 1946..5 1947.5

Sexta-Quinta _______._...1944..6 1945..5 1946..6 1947__ 5

Preparatory Class _... 1945. 4 1946..4 1947__ 8
Totals WW. 1944.10 1945.17 1946.15 1947_18

The conduct of the students in the past years has been excel-
lent. Since all students applied themselves diligently to their
studies, all with one exception passed the respective grades, We lost
only one student within the triennium.

In the year 1945 a radical change was made in the setup and
curriculum of the Colegio. After consulting the various pastoral
conferences in the District and presenting the matter to Synod’s
Board of Directors, it was decided to add a preparatory department
to our course to give especially boys from the country, where there
are as yet no full grade schools, an opportunity to prepare for
entrance in the Colegio. Students of the preparatory class attend
the local public school during the morning hours to complete their
elementary education, and in the afternoon they attend special
classes in religion, German language, music, and Bible reading,
and, in special cases, also receive coaching for their final exams
in the grade school. In 1947 they have 18 periods a week out-
side of the public school.

In order to make room for more preparatory students, it was
then decided with the proper authorization from Synod’s Board
of Directors, as the report from Seminario Concordia informs,
to transfer the Prima-Secunda class to Buenos Aires. In order to
increase the efficiency of the Colegio, it was further decided, with
the proper authorization of Synod’s Board of Directors, to follow
the course of the state colleges and normal schools. According to
State regulations the courses of the first three years of the State
College can be passed by special examinations at the close of the
year. Since our Colegio is not an accredited school (the costs
are prohibitive), our faculty prepares the students according to
the State College program, sends them at the close of the year
to a State College, where they are examined by a special examina-
tion board. 1946 was the first year, and it was a very successful
year in this respect. Of the five students, four passed, and a fifth
one must repeat the examination in one branch only. Our faculty
and students were congratulated upon the wonderful showing the