# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S255
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1. Our theological faculty is overburdened with work. The work for the seminary, and also for our publishing house (editing the periodicals, reviews, etc.), has steadily increased and will pile up still more in the future.

2. Our professors, especially the younger ones, should have time left over for further study, for specialized study in the disciplines entrusted to them.

3. If the services of a teacher are temporarily withdrawn from the seminary and the publishing house, say through illness, or should it please God to take a teacher from us through a blessed death, sufficient and suitable personnel should be available to fill the resulting gap.

In the name and by commission of the New York District Conference, signed with all due respect, its secretary,
H. F. R. Stechholz.

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Representation of the Teaching Staff on the Boards of Control of the Teachers' Seminaries.

To the Honorable Delegate Synod, assembled at St. Louis, Mo., from May 10 to 20, 1911.

The teachers' conference of Central Illinois, assembled at Danville, Ill., charged the undersigned committee with respectfully submitting the following request to the Honorable Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other states for possible deliberation:

May an Honorable Synod consider whether it would not be wise and beneficial to add a representative from the teaching staff to the boards of control at our seminaries in Addison, Ill., and Seward, Nebr.

We base this request on the fact that a professional, who daily faces the demands placed on a teacher, is necessarily kept up to date, and as a result has a clearer view and a surer judgment in many matters that come into consideration in the training of our future teachers; and could therefore more readily point out any shortcomings in this area and advocate and justify their remedy better than people who have not made the pedagogical field their life's profession and who often do not recognize the necessity of particular measures as well as an advisor who lives entirely within this field.

Granting our request would require an expansion of paragraph 3 of the synodical constitution, chapter 5 B (Synodical Handbook, p. 16), in that the provision would need to be added that among the