# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S243
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Up to now this department has not only supported itself through
the tuition charged, but has even yielded an annual surplus of
$100.00 to $300.00. This annex makes no claim whatsoever on
synodical funds. A larger room in the college was made available
to this department as a classroom. In return, about $150.00 a year
has been paid over to the school from the Business Department's
treasury. Several students of this department also attend class
hours of the gymnasium course (grammar, arithmetic, etc.), and the
gymnasium students, including those studying theology, take part,
for instance, in penmanship in the Business Department. Any fears
that students who had entered the school to devote themselves to
the preaching office might turn instead to the business course have
so far proved groundless; on the contrary, individual students from
the Business Department have transferred into the ministerial
division. Naturally the Business Department, too, stands under the
supervision of the school's director.

We have retained this arrangement, including the provision that
girls are admitted to acquire a general or business education. The
girls are present in the school building only during class hours. As
other lodging for the girls from our own circles, we rented a
boarding house (Dormitory) last year, in which a Lutheran matron
had charge. Since, however, we do not have a sufficient number of
girls for this in the current year, we have placed them in private
homes.

Had these departments (Business Department and Coeducation)
not already been connected with the school as a secondary purpose,
we would probably not have introduced them. But now we thought:
"Don't spoil it; there may be a blessing in it." And in this view we
have, over time, despite various misgivings, become more and more
confirmed, so that the Kansas District, at its last session, resolved to
ask the General Synod to retain these existing arrangements
(Business Department and Coeducation).

In this way we would take some account of the needs of our
time. We would offer our growing youth the opportunity to
continue receiving sound instruction here for this life; and further,
we would guard them against the poison of unbelief and false belief
and the spirit of the world that prevails in the public institutions,
high schools, and business colleges of the world, and lead them to
the fear of God, which is the beginning of all wisdom, and thereby
help keep them for the church.

One More Resolution of the Kansas District, and Some
Recommendations of the Board of Control.

In view of the resolution of the last General Synod, "to
encourage the Kansas District to take charge of this school for the
coming triennium," and since the further