# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S917
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 219

in other words, it will be and remain wholly an instru-
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 curric-
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 minor
fields for the purpose of merely satisfying their personal
interests, but that they will be expected, under guidance,
to regard their interests and capacities as indices of pos-
sible specialized usefulness in the Church after an adequate
périod 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 possi-
bility will not materially influence any student’s course of
study either in the college or in the seminary; and that, to
the extent that additional special training proves subse-
quently to be necessary for, or desired by, the student, it
will be secured chiefly in either the Lutheran University
or in secular institutions.

9. That the curriculum will be regarded as only one of the
essential instrumentalities of education in the senior col-
lege and that adequate non-~ or extra-curriculum means for
education will be provided and that these will, in practice,
be accorded their necessary position of importance as con-
ditioning influences.

Suggested Aims
It should be emphasized that the aims which are suggested
below are not the objectives of a senior college, but only the objec-
tives of that part of a senior college which is its curriculum.

1. Since the training of a minister is the training of a man
whose chief instrument of work will be the Word, and since
the dominant purpose of a seminary training must be to
generate aptness in the use of the Word, a principal aim
of a senior college undoubtedly must be to expand the stu-
dent’s knowledge of the Word and to intensify and deepen
his personal acceptance of Revelation as the efficient prin-
ciple of first importance in his own life.

2. Since the work of a minister is always a work upon human
beings, he must thoroughly understand man. To gain this
understanding of man, it becomes necessary to observe him,