# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S192
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192

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

seminary curriculum content will largely be transferreq .
the senior college program.

2. That the contracted seminary curriculum will be alm
wholly professional in purpose and content and that it ,
incorporate no concession to any occupational aim othe
than the ministry.

3. That it will be demanded of all students who wish to enter
the seminary that they adequately possess the spiritual] and
personality development as well as the technical and inte.
lectual apparatus which are necessary for a high leve]
professional training toward the single occupational aim
serving God in the ministry.

4. That all of the objectives of the four years of a senior cpl:
lege curriculum, whatever these objectives may be, mu
converge exclusively upon a single aim, which is to equip’
young men, as indicated above, for the seminary course,
and that the senior college curriculum shall not be dilute
or qualified or elaborated by the introduction of any sub.
ject matter whose purpose is extraneous to the central pur.
pose of the program.

5. That, consequently, the senior college will not at all be re
garded as the upper division of a liberal arts program, and
that the senior college, however it may be organized, will
never be confused with the concept of a university; that,
in other words, it will be and remain wholly an instri-
mentality of preparation only for admission to the seminary
and through the latter for entrance into the work of the
holy ministry.

6. That, in view of the foregoing, the senior college currie-.
ulum must be a single curriculum consisting chiefly of pre-
scribed courses and offering only a limited opportunity for:
election, principally in minor fields.

7. That students will not be permitted to select their min:
fields for the purpose of merely satisfying their personal,
interests, but that they will be expected, under guidaneé,
to regard their interests and capacities as indices of pos
sible specialized usefulness in the Church after an adequate
period of ministerial experience. :

8. That, while it must be acknowledged that a small though
significant percentage of seminary students will ultimately
be drawn into special forms of church service, this poss

bility will not materially influence any student’s course

study either in the college or in the seminary; and that, &-
the extent that additional special training proves subse: