# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S62
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62 Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,
Resolved: — Action.

4. That the curriculum outlined by the committee in its report
be used by our colleges.

2. That the Professors’ Conference make necessary changes or
improvements and see that they are put into operation.

3. That the Faculty at St. Louis exercise its authority to deter-
mine: entrance requirements and insist that they be met.

4, That every student entering our institutions be required to -

submit to theeDirector a doctor’s certificate of health together with
his application.

5. That the students at all our colleges and seminaries be sub-
jected to a physical examination by the college physician at least
onee a year. oo Z

6. Touching the fourth recommendation of the Survey Com-
mittee, Synod resolved that the prevailing practise of employing so
many assistant professors be reduced to a minimum. It was, how-
ever, also recognized that Synod must be conservative in creating
new professorships and that the advantages of engaging 8 limited
number of assistant professors must not be overlooked.

Better Supervision of Our Educational Institutions.
(German Report, p. 99.) :

In view of the tremendous expansion in recent years of Synod’s
system of higher education in our colleges and seminaries and in view
of the present-day problems of education that call for constant study,
the Pittsburgh Local Pastoral Conference respectfully submits to the
Ven. Synod the advisability of establishing a more adequate, efficient,
and unified supervision of all our institutions of learning. We believe

this can best be accomplished by the election of one competent person, ~

who would work under the direction of the President. This person
would devote his time solely or principally to the department of higher
education. His duty would be to make a study of educational mat-
ters; to hold regular and frequent visitations in each institution, and
visitations long enough to enable him to get a thorough insight into
the management, discipline, and class-work; also to get into personal
contact with teachers, and to recommend and to advise.

As to whether the office to be created be that of an Educational
Secretary, or whether one of Synod’s Vice-Presidents be chosen for
this work, thereby taking the first step towards a system of depart-
ment heads in the Praesidium, we have no recommendation to make.

In the name of the Pittsburgh Local Pastoral Conference, in
session January 5, 1926, in Pittsburgh,

Freedom, Pa., January 6, 1926. W.E. Sonunpt, Secretary.