# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S38
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

38 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

ent. For the study of various subjects ‘in ¥

s. Science Equipm
sciences our instituti

the area of the natural
of the basic equipment necessary in botany and zoology and also!
for chemistry, but our physics laboratory is woefully under;
ch of the available equipment is out of date¥

equipped, and mu
because of the tremendous. changes and developments in the field¥

of physics. We respectfully request that Synod grant us the amount3
of $7,500 to purchase equipment with which to set up an adequate®

physics laboratory for high school and college courses.

t. Library. The grant made by the

benefit our library has enabled us to make some fundamental re-f
modeling changes. In addition, a considerable number of books’

were purchased. Yet there is an unfilled need for additional boo :
holdings to bring the library up to standard and the equipment#
and stacks to place them and care for them. For this the cus4
tomary annual library grant from synodical funds would not begin:
to suffice. We respectfully request Synod to grant an additional}

allotment in the amount of $18,500,. to be disbursed during

triennium. —
+a, Domestic Arts. Equipment. Several States are beginning
add. domestic arts to elementary school curricula. by. law and t
require teachers qualified in them. We cannot now give teacher
this ccompetence.. In order to make possible the addition. to ouf
curriculum -:of domestic arts. or home economics in a -begi inf
way, we request Synod to authorize the Board for Higher Educa
tion to study our further detailed curricular plans and within th
next three -years - to ‘grant the necessary funds to_ acquire ali
develop the. basic domestic facilities. Se .
_ $0: Residences for. Retiring.. Professors. __We. would like 4
call Synod’s attention to the serious problem involved in:reconcilit
the existing policy of furnishing residences or rent to all synodi¢
professors who hold the rank of associate professor or above; Wi
the present policy on retirement.of guperannuated, members of ¢
teaching -staff- “We. consider. the latter: policy to be a-consider
improvement and-highly desirable. ‘We :do. feel that: Synod: shot
charge: the Board for. Higher Education -with the investigation
the possibilities of. removing the injustice -jnvolved occasionally
retiring an individual, who’ has, perhaps, served the- Church
many long years and has not obtained a house and then in s
denly leaving him with the necessity of acquiring a residence
himself and his, family in the declining years of his life.
_- JL. Building. Estimates and, Fluctuations. We would also
quest Synod. to. direct™the investigation of. the-effectiveness-of
existing policy of requiring fixed estimates to be ‘attached by