# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S177
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 177

tion of a minor in a field of special interest or importance to the
student. (It is expected that this function will receive approxi-
mately the same emphasis as is usual in schools of collegiate level,
but that the other functions will receive a notably greater propor-
tion of emphasis in time and conscious attention within the total
sphere of conditioning responsibility of the Senior College.)

Finally, the Senior College shall consciously undertake the
development of the student’s personality, especially in the area of
social habits and social attitudes, so as to form a socially competent
Christian gentleman.

It is contemplated, moreover, that the faculty of the Senior
College will confer the Degree of Bachelor of Arts upon every
student who has satisfactorily completed its program in residence.

The entire philosophy and the practical activities of the Senior
College should be based on an awareness of its complete respon-
sibility for all aspects of the spiritual, intellectual, cultural, and
social equipment with which the student emerges from the school.
It is expected, therefore, that all of the facilities of the Senior
College will be selected and employed to serve these responsibil-
ities, and that the personnel of its organization will include a staff
of competent student counselors whose responsibility may well be
recognized as exceeding the responsibility of instructors and pro-
fessors engaged in the formal conduct of courses.

The Proposals
The Board had available for review and study no less than
18 specific plans which had been suggested as possible solutions
of the problem.
1. Add two years to each Preparatory School.
2. Add two years to each Preparatory School and eliminate
the ninth and tenth grades.
3. Raise one school to a Senior College.
. Raise two schools to Senior Colleges.
5. Raise three schools to Senior Colleges and eliminate the
high school division.
6. Establish one separate two-year unit for the junior and
senior college years, leaving the other institutions intact.
7. Make St. Louis a five-year school and grant the Bachelor’s
degree at the end of two years.
8. Leave all our Colleges intact and have our boys enter
Valparaiso for two years after graduating from our Prep-
aratory Schools.

9. Enlarge River Forest and Seward by adding courses we

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