# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1884_S56
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56   Proceedings of the 19th General [Synod], or

II. Regarding the President (Director):

1. It is the president, or Director,*) as representative of the institution and executive of the faculty, to whom the Synod, its authorities, and its members are to turn and hold in the first instance in all matters concerning the institution as such. He therefore has to take charge of everything necessary for this, for example the relevant correspondence, and presides at the faculty meetings.

2. The president, or Director, as inspector of the institution and of the entire staff of the institution, is

a. to attend the teaching hours of all the teachers and to watch that the curriculum and class schedule are kept to, that the prescribed workload, according to the division of the subject matter, is duly gone through, that a method suited to the subject matter is applied, and that, in general, all established regulations are followed. — Should his reminders on this score not be heeded, he is first to see to it that the matter is settled through a brotherly discussion in the Faculty; failing that, however, he is to report it to the Board of Control, then to the General President, and finally to the General Synod.

b. The president (Director) is the immediate superior of the steward.

c. He has, in particular, oversight of the buildings used by the pupils and of the institution's inventory, insofar as part of it has not already been entrusted to another member of the Faculty.

3. The president, or Director, as father of the household to the pupils, has the duty

a. to watch over the pupils' spiritual welfare with all diligence;

b. to supervise their conduct in their work and free hours, to exercise Christian discipline, to see to the institution's morals, order, and cleanliness, and generally to take care that the house order is followed — in which, at his request, his colleagues are to support him;

c. to oversee the care of the sick;

d. to oversee the boarding of the pupils;

e. as far as possible, to give the principal instruction in religion, and otherwise to take part in the teaching according to the measure of his time and strength.

III. Regarding the Board of Control.

As regards this body, the "Instruction," etc., drawn up by the last General Synod for the conduct of its functions remains in force (see

*) The first designation was intended for the heads of the theological seminaries, the other for those of the other institutions.