# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S955
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 257

claimed by a Lutheran high school for the preparation of
acceptable candidates for admission at the freshman college
level of our synodically controlled colleges.
5. A standard program for college entrance shall include be-
sides courses in religion for each year enrolled —
3 or 4 units of English
3 units of social science
2 units of mathematics (algebra, plane geometry)
2 units of science
1 unit of fine arts or practical arts
1 unit of physical education and health
2 units of foreign language (for ministerial students
German or Latin) .
2 units of electives (for ministerial students German or
Latin)

This standard program will meet entrance requirements for
any college in the N.C. A.

6. Latin III, German IJ, and Greek shall be eliminated as
required courses for matriculation at the freshman college
level for ministerial candidates. These courses are too spe-
cialized and costly to be included in a defensible program
of general education.

It should be remembered that the specialized pre-professional
curricula which are now demanded at a synodical high school are
really not justified by the educational philosophy of the Lutheran
parochial high schools. Since these schools are and ought to be
committed to a program. of general education at the secondary
evel for all the youth of the Church, it would not be proper to
demand that they provide specialties for the relatively few stu-
dents whom they prepare for specific professions.

Most educators agree that specialization in languages at the
expense of basic courses in science, mathematics, fine arts, and
practical arts at the secondary level cannot be justified. Also for
f. ministerial and teacher training students, the broader training
®. offered by the general education subjects is essential as a basic
s background for the development of effective leadership. For this
& reason Synod ought not to require the Lutheran high schools to
E begin the specialty training of pre-ministerial students at the high
s. school level. It is indicated, for the same reasons, that correspond-
;, ing adjustments should eventually be made in the high school de-
:. partments of all synodical colleges, since the college departments
-. will be expanded to include senior college years and, therefore, an
‘ additional opportunity for language study.

¥ The scholarship payments proposed in these recommendations
F are simple and direct. It is felt that such an arrangement should
FE encourage a large number of competent students to enroll in our
& colleges after they have attended Lutheran high schools.

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