# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S101
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 101

cause of the alterations, necessitated by the growth of
ch, the courses and classes have constantly increased
the present time we require 13 professors and by 1956
have to have 15, which, considering the lack of manpower
-owth of our Church, would be practically unattainable.

‘Because of the lack of the necessary personnel in the
nthe past year, 1952, we were obliged to employ students
er. assistants to help teach the 62 hours weekly. This
i condition evidently cannot contribute towards improving
iculum of studies and therefore must not become a per-~
arrangement.
yremoving the high school course from the Seminary
essors will be sufficient. These we already have. The
six additional professors (adding a yearly expenditure
00,000.00 for salaries), the construction of six new residences
diture of about Cr. 1,500,000.00), and the enlargement of
‘Cr 500,000.00) —we already lack space in the dining
‘dormitories, and the study rooms—would all be un-
On the contrary, it would afford us the necessary space
‘elassroom for geography, for history, and especially for
yeation (showing of films, etc.).
to now our fifth year — first year of college — never has
_ students, rarely exceeding one dozen. However, if the
schools that are favorably situated in distinct regions of
_send students to the Seminary, the number of students,
doubt, will increase so that more laborers can be sent out.

With this new arrangement our students when entering the
would have their high school diploma, which would
dJater on to obtain their official registration as teachers
y schools in the State Department of Education. This,
.make it unnecessary for our students to pass the
is of the “Artigo 91” (the equivalent for the high school
y in the fifth and sixth years, which has always
_ disturbance in our classes.

ving together of the very young students with the
its of the pedagogical and the theological courses cer-
t be recommended as being ideal, and, in fact, has
‘serious problems of discipline.

hermore, it cannot be recommended as psychologically
ve students remain ten years at the same institution.
&,expenses of maintaining needy students in the city are
nigh, and in consideration of the fact that the number
during the first years is the largest, by having a part

udents study in Santa Rosa, where there are about