# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S52
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Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

B. Reports and Resolutions
Pertaining to Educational Institutions in General.

Report of the Committee for Raising Standards of our
Educational System.

(German Report, p. 88.)

An Hon. Synod charged your Committee together with the Hon.
Faculty of our Seminary in St. Louis and representatives of our
junior colleges to work out a course of study for our junior colleges,
providing for higher standards of instruction. It would carry us too
far afield to record all the preliminary work, correspondence, and
deliberations which finally led to a common achievement. Especially
the Professors’ Conference at Lombard, Il., in the summer of 1925
occupied itself with this matter. Two things, above all, were recog-
nized: 1. That the Hon. Faculty of our Seminary at St. Louis- had
to decide what attainments our junior college graduates must have
reached before they could enter the Seminary; 2. that our junior
colleges must be extended if under existing conditions they. were to
‘serve their purpose. Accordingly, Prof. P. E. Kretzmann, D. D., drew
up a curriculum for our junior colleges which the Hon. Faculty at
St. Louis approved. December 28 and 29 a meeting was held in
Chicago with representatives of our junior colleges, attended by
Dr. Kretzmann as representative of the St. Louis Faculty and also
by President Pfotenhauer, the latter by request, at which this curri-
culum was discussed and adopted after some changes had been made.
The same thing was done at the meetings which your Committee held
on February 6, 1926, together with President Pfotenhauer.’ This
plan, adopted by all charged with this work, is herewith presented to
an Hon. Synod.

Curriculum for Our Preparatory Institutions.

Course of Study of the Proposed Senior College.
By Way of Orientation.

The word curriculum is here used in the specific meaning which
has become attached to it as a result of the latest investigations in
the field of curriculum construction, chiefly by men like Bobbitt,
Charters, Bonser, Gray, Parker, and others. The curriculum, in this
sense, is a plan of education, or training, setting forth mainly the
aims, objectives, or goals of any particular subject or group of sub-
jects, together with such general discussion concerning the routes,
activities, habits, abilities, powers, and ideals pertaining to those
subjects as will make for definite and efficient school-work. To some

extent the curriculum includes also a discussion of methods, although “3
only in a general way. The curriculum differs from the course of 3