# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S205
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 208

Adding Two-Year Senior College to Present Course
(Memorial 141)

The faculty of Concordia Collegiate Institute, Bronxville, New
York, requests Synod to add at the earliest opportunity a two-year
senior college to its present program of ministerial training.

Our faculty feels that the present system of preparatory schools
and junior colleges should be maintained as an essential unit in
Synod’s program of ministerial education and should be de-
veloped to the point of highest efficiency, with full accreditation.

The addition of a two-year senior college to the present course,
we believe, will enable our students to undertake their theological
studies with more mature character and broader intellectual insight.
(We assume that the Seminary course will be reduced to three
years after the senior college is established.)

We are further convinced that the senior college should be
established on a separate campus in a place centrally located.
Since the proposed years of senior college immediately precede
entrance at the Seminary, they will be of crucial importance for
the development of truly ministerial character and attitudes in
the future pastor. The full attainment of Synod’s objective in
establishing this new college can best be achieved, in our opinion,
on a separate campus, apart from existing junior colleges, teachers’
colleges, and seminaries.

We urge Synod to provide immediately the adequate facilities,
competent staff, and sound educational program required for
establishing and maintaining the accreditation of this new school
on the basis of its own high standards and its own good quality.

Tue Facutry or Concorpra CoLLecrATE INSTITUTE

Artuur J. Doce, President
Abert E. Meyer, Secretary

To Abolish High Schools at Colleges
(Memorial 142)

Wuenreas, It is apparent that the spiritual life of our colleges is
not of the high quality we should all wish it to be; and

Wuereas, This lack exerts a continual and detrimental influence
upon the future spiritual leaders of our Church; and

Wuereas, High school training can now everywhere be had
without boarding out, which was not true in the days when our
system originated; and

Wuereas, It appears to us a monstrous and vicious procedure,
and pedagogically indefensible, to take growing children out of their
Christian homes for training in boarding schools; now therefore