# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1920_S14 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) Proceedings of Thirty-First Nationa] Convention, - . .? Board of Education. - ' Superintendent, (Germ. Rep., p. 34.) . The Pastors’ and Teachers’ Conference of Fort Wayne . Vicinity presented a memorial asking Synod to elect Education to carry out uniformly the educational Tesolutiong , at Detroit and to empower this Board to appoint a Superiy = for our higher educational system. » Sadent ' Rt Action. Synod resolved to refer this matter to a committee the Chair for further deliberation and for recommen next convention. ®Ppointed dation at g. Annual Institution Sunday. Action to this effect was requested in a memorial of the No Illinois District; Synod, however, declined to Pass such resolution. Report of the Survey Committee. (Germ. Rep., Pp. 35. 36.) The Convention of 1917 ordered the President in con, with the four Vice-Presidents to appoint a Committee on Educational Survey. This Committee, consisting of P. Roesener, F. Tresselt, . W. Dallmann, ©. F. Brommer, and O. L. Hohenstein, made a complete survey of our educational institutions with respect to educational standards and courses of instruction. They report that the men who compose the faculties of our institutions are faithful and Pious professors who at all times have endeavored to train up not only Sultation make a higher standard of education imperative. To this end they made a number of recommendations. ‘These together with memorials’ from other sources and the reports of the various local boards led to the following resolutions: — Resolutions Concerning Higher Education. (Germ. Rep., Pp. 35.) In order to awaken love and zeal for study, it was resolved that the professors again and again hold before their pupils the high aims and the glorious purpose of their various studi . lower classes especially are to receive the necessary directions for solving their problems, and, in general, for studying correctly. Where