# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S85
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 85

C. Concerning Instruction.

Regarding minimum requirements, the school year, the medium of
instruction, the institution's catalog, etc., Committee No. 11 (for
Educational Matters and Curricula) submitted the following report to
the synod:

"Among other things (p. 47 of the memorials), your Committee No. 11
had before it, for its opinion, an urgent request made in the name of
the professors' conference, 'that at the synod's expense a separate
catalog in English be printed for each institution.'

"Your committee recommends:

"1. that the Reverend Synod authorize $25.00 annually to each school
for the production of an illustrated catalog in English;

"2. that the decision on whether, in the first seminary class at
Springfield, two hours of Latin a week should be given instead of
only one, be referred back to the Springfield board of oversight and
faculty;

"3. that the more precise determination of what accomplishments of a
good parish school entitle a boy to enter the sixth-year class of our
gymnasiums be assigned to the professors' conference.

"4. May the Reverend Synod determine the following: in both
ministerial seminaries the academic year shall have 38 school weeks
annually, and in all other schools 40 school weeks annually. The
school year shall close not on a Wednesday but on a Friday. The
vacation calendar set at the beginning of the academic year by the
board of oversight and the faculty shall be made known to the
students and pupils and shall thereafter be non-negotiable.

"(Since in the school year now drawing to a close the Christmas and
Easter vacations were correspondingly shortened, may the Reverend
Synod set Friday, June 23, as the closing day of school for this
year.)

"5. Since, according to page 24 of the memorials, German is fairly
foreign and unfamiliar to the students entering the sixth-year class
at Bronxville, the use of English as the medium of instruction will
indeed be advisable at first, even in subjects for which
differently-situated institutions use German; but the board of
oversight and faculty at Bronxville should, precisely for this
reason, take all the more diligent care from the very first school
year onward to properly cultivate the German language as well, since
this institution too must serve to prepare students who will one day
be able to preach and teach in both German and English."

This report of Committee No. 11 was adopted by the synod. For
particular reasons, however, the seminary at St. Louis was struck
from point 4, and a school year of 36 weeks was fixed for it instead.