# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S58
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58 Proceedings of the 29th General or

Sixth professorship.

The electoral college has reviewed and approved the curriculum and
schedule drawn up by the faculty. Accordingly the weekly hours are
distributed as follows: Director A. W. Meyer, 24 hours; Prof. H.
Stöppelwerth, 35; Prof. Chas. Scaer, 34; Prof. M. Gräbner, 35; Prof.
L. Steiner, 36; assistant O. Lindemeyer, 26. The latter lives at the
institution and assists the director in oversight. For his services he
receives $40.00 a month, or $400.00 for the school year. Mr. Lindemeyer,
a student, will now leave us at the end of this school year to continue
his studies in St. Louis. Our five teachers, especially the director as
well, are overburdened with work; a sixth full-time teacher has become
an urgent necessity. The General President has likewise recognized
this.

We therefore ask the Reverend Synod to authorize the
appointment of a sixth professor for St. John's College.

Report on our Business Department and on Coeducation.

Concerning these arrangements at the Winfield institution, the last
Synod adopted the following resolution: "Resolved, that the existing
arrangements of a Business Department and of Coeducation be allowed to
continue for the present; but that the board of control of the
institution report again on these arrangements at the next meeting of
the Delegate Synod."

The Business Department is an arrangement separate from the
institution. This department also has its own teachers. The teachers of
this department are paid neither by the Synod nor from any college
fund, but solely and exclusively from the tuition paid for this
department. This arrangement is thus self-sustaining. It only makes
use of a larger classroom at the institution, for which, however,
$75.00 a year was paid in rent to the Synod's treasurer. In the school
years 1911 to 1913 we had two teachers employed; this school year we
have only one teacher, Mr. J. J. Kloster, from among our own number,
who receives a salary of $700.00.

Subjects taught.

Bookkeeping (Musselman system), Shorthand (Gregg or Pitman),
Typewriting, Civil Government, Commercial Law, Commercial Geography,
Penmanship, Spelling, and Correspondence. — The Commercial Course
covers two years.

Tuition.

Bookkeeping, with the other instruction that goes with it: $1.00 a
week; Shorthand and Typewriting, together with the other instruction:
$1.00 a week. Both together: $1.50 a week.