# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S106
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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102 ; SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

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[142]
Change Entrance Requirements for Our Colle
Departments

Wuereas, The present standards for entrance into the gop
departments of Synod’s preparatory schools make it impog ie
for graduates of our Lutheran high schools and public high s sche
to enter; and

Wuereas, Many parents desire to keep their children under
influence of the home during the formative years of high school: J

Wuerzas, Such parents as want to send their sons to.
preparatory schools are penalized together with their sons w
these are required to take as much as a couple of years of mak i
work before they are admitted to the college departments of
preparatory schools; and

Wuereas, Such penalties tend to discourage many parg
and children; and q

Wuereas, The present standards produce an alarmingly
rate of “casualties” among the students (e.g., out of some eid
students who entered our Milwaukee Concordia in the freshy
high school year as the class of 1950, less than 20 are there at
beginning of their final school year); and j

Wnereas, Our present practice is largely responsible for og
crowded dormitories at our preparatory schools; and

Wuenreas, Such practice tends to increase the financial buy
of Synod and Synod has closed the doors of the Springfield sq
nary to all who have not reached the age of twenty years, why
in effect prevents most high school graduates from enteringg
fall after their graduation; therefore be it

Resolved, That the entrance requirements for the college
partments of our preparatory schools be brought in line with tf
of other colleges and universities, even if this involves the ever
discontinuation of the high school departments. :3

Tae Pastorat, CONFERENCE OF CircurT 4
SourH Wisconsin District
or THE LUTHERAN CHURCH — Missouri
Rev. B. C. Guz, Visitor

[143] Professors’ Conferences

The faculty of Concordia College of St. Paul, Minn., resi
fully petitions the convention to retain and enforce the provis
of the synodical Handbook concerning professors’ conferences.$
quote section 6.11: