# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S257
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the most capable men. It is true that the General President is also duty-bound to visit all the educational institutions once a year (loc. cit., p. 24) and to exercise oversight over all the teachers (loc. cit., p. 23). But how is this possible given his many official duties, especially when the General President also has to attend to a professorship or a pastorate?

Since we are now convinced that the election of our professors can take place more cheaply, more easily, and more advantageously for the institutions, and that the oversight of instruction at our institutions ought to be better, we take the liberty of making the following proposals to the Honorable Delegate Synod:

1. The nomination of candidates for our educational institutions remains as before.

2. The previous electoral college is abolished.

3. For each educational institution of the Synod, an electoral college is elected, namely from the district in which the institution is located. If two institutions are in one district, then two electoral colleges are elected from that district.

4. This electoral college shall consist of six members of the ministerium. The board of control, together with the faculty or the college, has one collective vote in the electoral college. The electoral colleges for the teachers' seminaries shall be composed of four pastors and two teachers.

5. All the Synod's provisions for the previous electoral college apply to the electoral colleges. (Synodical Handbook, pp. 14, 16, 37 ff.)

6. The members of the individual electoral colleges are elected in such a way that each respective district, in the year before the Delegate Synod, elects the necessary persons from its midst, and this election is submitted the following year to the Delegate Synod for approval, or, as the case may be, rejection or amendment.

7. Each electoral college has to exercise oversight over the entire instruction at the institution placed under it and, should the election of a professor prove to have been a mistake, to see to it that he is recalled as soon as possible to the pastoral or teaching office, as the case may be.

8. In the removal of an institution's teacher, the relevant electoral college, together with the General President, takes the place of the district presidents. Five votes of this body suffice to remove a teacher. With the removal of a teacher, his salary and free housing cease.

9. Each electoral college, together with the board of control, is to examine and evaluate the class schedule drawn up by the faculty. This is to be done every year.

With all due respect, the Arlington Heights Special Conference.

Signed in its name:
E. Werfelmann, Chairman.
W. Lewerenz, Secretary.