# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S245
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 248

a. By introducing the cost-accounting system authorized by °

the Board of Directors;

b. By submitting periodic cost analyses upon request;

c. By setting fees requiring students to meet fifty to sixty
per cent of the costs involved in general education;

d. By securing locally the balance of the cost involved;

e. By completing contracts with the Board of Directors for
the return of fees sufficient to clear Synod of all costs in excess of
those required to maintain and operate the schools for ministerial
training. :

XI. Physical Education

Any activity or program that is not in harmony with the
Christian principles of education has no place in a school cur-
riculum. Physical Education is generally recognized as a branch
of education through activities that are predominantly physical,
and its aims are identical with those of all educational programs.

For many years Synod has focused its attention almost ex-
clusively upon the spiritual and academic needs of students in its
educational institutions. Recently there has also been an increas-
ing tendency to provide for more adequate attention to a program
of physical education. The Centennial Thankoffering recognizes
the need for Physical Education facilities at the Theological Sem-
inaries. Local constituencies have provided for a Physical Edu-
cation plant at some of Synod’s institutions. Others are without
such facilities.

The brethren in attendance at the Professors’ Conference
(1946) in Milwaukee, Wis., felt that specific attention to the needs
of the institutions in this respect is a prime necessity. Your Board
agrees that it would be far more desirable to recognize this im-
portant area of education and training officially and to place it on
a sound basis of control and responsibility than to continue the
attempt to meet requirements by temporary or irregular means.

It has also become apparent that if the synodical directive
which requests all institutions to seek regional accreditation is to
become effective, it will be necessary to give more adequate rec-
ognition to Physical Education as a legitimate part of the training
of all students in our educational institutions. Full accreditation
will require that Synod maintain trained Physical Education men
or women on the instructional staffs so that a recognized program
of Physical Education may be conducted.

The programs at the various schools display a variety which is
as extensive as it is undesirable. The regionally accredited high
schools at the Teachers Colleges and at the Preparatory Schools