# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1026
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

B28 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Resolved, That we plead with Synod to weigh the price toh
paid if it should feel inclined to drop, in whole or in part, the hij
school from the present high school-junior college system
pre-theological education, and thus weaken the foundation of'e
present educational structure; be it further

Resolved, To urge Synod to strengthen the schools it alrea
has in administration and teaching force and material equipmeé
and to stir both ministry and laity to more Synod-wide inte:
in Synod’s every school; for instance, to take Synod-wide inte
whenever a faculty vacancy occurs, and to nominate from
parts of Synod men of the highest caliber in character, consec!
tion, and academic ability. Our schools are not isolated units, ‘bu
integral members of one system, serving the same Church.
the same Master.

Tue Facuntty or Concorpia CoLLEcE, MILWAUKEE, q
- Paut F. Kornnexe, Secretary of the Faculty’
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ACTION
This memorial was considered by Committee 1 in connect!
with Section “A,” Reorganization, of the Report of the Board’
Higher Education.

Change Entrance Requirements for Our College
Departments
(Memorial 142)

Wuereas, The present standards for entrance into the colle
departments of Synod’s preparatory schools. make it impossib|
for graduates of our Lutheran high schools and public high schools
to enter; and

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

Wuereas, Such parents as want to send their sons to ‘ow
preparatory schools are penalized together with their sons wh
these are required to take as much as a couple of years of make-
work before they are admitted to the college departments of o
preparatory schools; and ;

WHEREAS, Such penalties tend to discourage many parenty
and children; and “welt

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