# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S198
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 199

study. which must be included in the curriculum, it should frankly
be acknowledged that a detailed determination of the precise
urses which the curriculum should embrace and a judgment
shout the degree of flexibility which it should exhibit are matters
hich cannot be settled by means of any fixed rules. These are
roblems which invite a wide variety of Personal opinion which
vould be solicited and carefully weighed in order to arrive at
a workable and acceptable outline of studies.

At present it is impossible to go beyond the highly preliminary
step of indicating that the student in the senior college will need
instruction which will enable him to achieve additional competence
in the following three principal directions:

1. A wider and a better understanding of the Word of God
and a deeper consecration to its Gospel, and by it to its Law,
for the sake of Christ, the Savior.

2. A wider and deeper understanding of man in society, for
whom the Word is intended.

3. The cultivation of knowledge, skills, and attitudes which
will facilitate his competence in bringing together the Word
and man.

Beyond this the senior college curriculum must not go. But

toward these purposes the curriculum might well make provision
for such fields of study as the following:

Religion Hebrew Philosophy
Church History German Education
Latin Social Sciences Psychology
Greek English and Literature

Somewhat later in this report, the Board for Higher Education
presents a specific recommendation covering the method of devel-
oping the senior college curriculum.