# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S181
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 181

sequent increase in ministerial student recruitment prob-
lems.

. The automatic delay in the introduction of languages until

college years and the over-all length of the total integrated
program would result in the eventual elimination of the
high school as an integral part of our ministerial training.

. A tendency to hasten the trend toward general education

in our Preparatory Schools if a decrease in enrollment of
ministerial students on the high school Jevel were ex-
perienced.

. The accreditation of the Seminary with the American As-

sociation of Theological Schools could be achieved.

. There would be a supply of academically and spiritually

more mature students coming to the St. Louis campus.
The impossibility of achieving immediate accreditation of
the Senior College except in the case of some type of in-
corporation into the administration of Valparaiso Uni-
versity.

Removal from the teaching staffs of our present colleges
of outstanding men (to supply the Senior College faculty)
would materially weaken these schools and would make
their. accreditation much more difficult.

A better opportunity to foster the spiritual growth of
our future ministers would exist by virtue of the more
specifically purposeful atmosphere.

The mechanics of our system of ministerial education would
approximate the standard American pattern for ministerial
and secular education, and ministerial students could more
readily continue their studies at the graduate level within
the area of their undergraduate specialization.

Ministerial graduates would be more mature.

A very material rise in Synod’s “cost per student” index
would be automatic.

General Assumptions

It should be understood that the term “Senior College” refers
to the upper two years of the college course, junior and senior

years, as commonly accepted in the American educational world.
The entire curricular and extra-curricular program of the school
will reflect the concept that the Senior College is designed to serve
the pre-professional needs of ministerial students. Much more is
involved here than the mere extension of preseminary college re-
quirements by the space of one year in order to convey 30 addi-
tional hours of credit to the graduate. A Senior College at any