# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S238
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vacation and only then move over into the school, which would
meanwhile be thoroughly heated. A few days before the joyful
Christmas feast, our students left the homes of their benefactors up
to then with a heartfelt "God repay you!", so as, after a short stay
in their parents' homes, to present themselves for renewed work at
Concordia in Bronxville on January 4, 1910.

But diligent work has been done not only on the outward
construction, but also on inward development. We would like to
make this school accessible also to those who wish to acquire a
higher education without from the outset setting the holy preaching
office as the goal of their studies. It can only be a blessing to the
church of God, as well as to the state, when there are as many laymen
as possible grounded in saving truth and thoroughly well-equipped
with secular knowledge. We would certainly be ill-advised and
disastrously shortsighted if we did not strive to have our higher
schools also produce men who might one day, as statesmen, judges,
physicians, lawyers, and businessmen, serve the general welfare of
their people — men whose conscience is bound to God's Word and
who let themselves be guided in their positions by the will of our
eternal Judge. But if we are to make a serious start in this
direction, we are compelled to use the English language as the
medium of instruction in certain subjects in the lower classes.
Already our professors, especially in the lower classes, must explain
most things in English. Our youth are simply already more English
than we often want to admit, and therefore we should no longer
hesitate, even at this higher school of ours, but for the good of the
American Lutheran church of the future should now already grant
the English language the right that we shall have to give it later
anyway — once we have been made wise by hard experience. It
would be desirable for the Delegate Synod to concur with the wish of
the Atlantic District, which resolved at its last convention: "It is the
opinion of the Atlantic District that the board of control of the
gymnasium at Bronxville should be authorized, as regards the use of
the English language as a medium of instruction, to accommodate
itself to the needs of the present time."

In order to offer our students as much sound instruction as
possible in the field of chemistry and physics, the board of control
has secured, for this school year, the services of Mr. A. Pouleur, who,
after completing his studies at Harvard University, had taught for a
time in Buffalo. Salary and rent for this seventh, and without
doubt quite capable, teacher are for the present paid by our
Lutheran Education Society.

As already indicated, three of our teachers still live in Hawthorne,
since we do not have the means to build, or even merely rent, suitable
housing for them at the school. To make a pilgrimage of 13 miles or
more every morning for teaching is a