# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S73
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Ey. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1996, 73

granting the request, After lengthy and careful consideration of
the salary question of our professors at all our institutions, your
Committee could not decide to recommend a general increase of
salaries at this time, especially in view of the fact that the Board of
Directors ig empowered by Synod to grant necessary assistance in
special cases. We therefore recommend to Synod that this policy be

Accreditation of Educational] Institutions,
(German Report, Pp. 136.)
Memorial of the Kansas District.

We, the members of the Kansas Pastoral Conference, assembled
at Alma, Kans., October 10, 1925, recommend that the Kansas Dis-

Synod. H. A. Norunaagt, ;
Secretary of the Kansas Pastoral Conference.

The foregoing memoria] was unanimously adopted by the Kansas
* District. W.C. Drozcemve.ter,
a Secretary of the Kansas District.

Memorial of the East Kansas Pastoral Conference,
(Unprinted.)

The Kansas District of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Mis-

We are, of course, conscious of the fact that recognition on the
; Part of educated men in general will not add one particle either to
the efficiency of our graduates or to the efficacy of the Word which
they proclaim at the Savior’s demand. Nevertheless, we believe that
such recognition would serve to benefit them in their work to such
an extent that, if such recognition could be secured without sacrifice

the work done at our institutions would be desirable are as follows :—:

>. J. Under present conditions, and with Prevailing customs and .
practises, degrees are no longer considered a mark of distinction, but
emerely an evidence of a liberal education, and the lack of a title
stamps a person, in the eyes of the general public, as one who is

: ) deficient in learning as to deserve no title. At present, none of