# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S43
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 43

PART THREE. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
I. Tuition.

Heretofore Synod has not required payment of tuition or room rent from
students preparing for work in the Church. Your Committee recommends that
the tuition of students who have declared their intention of studying for the
ministry or service in the parish-schools shall be $25 a year in the high-school
department, $50 a year in the college department, and $50 a year at the
Seminary in St. Louis.

Committee 1 recommended that the recommendation of the Committee
on Higher Education that ministerial students pay tuition be declined.

Action of Synod.
The recommendation of Committee 1 was adopted.

II. Adapting Number of Students to Housing Conditions.
(Memorial 138, Proceedings of Thirty-fifth Regular Convention, p. 74.)
The Committee on Higher Education recommended: —
1) That it be the policy of Synod to limit the enrolment at our colleges

to the capacity of the respective college as long as there is available room
at another institution of the same level; .

2) That the execution of this resolution be referred to the Board of
Directors.
Action of Synod.

The recommendation of Committee 1 to accept this recommendation was
adopted.

III. Postgraduate Examination for Candidates of the Ministry
before Ordination.
(Memorial 117, p.63. See also Memorial 120, p. 66, 1932.)
Committee 1 reported: —

Overtures before Synod at its last convention urged that candidates of
the ministry be required to serve as interns for a number of years and pass
a satisfactory postgraduate examination after having done sufficient practical
work before ordination into the ministry.

Concerning this matter your Committee recommends approval of this
statement of the Committee on Higher Education: —

“Although the plan possesses merit, yet at present it cannot be executed
due to the fact that there are not sufficient supply places for all candidates
and because the supply positions vary greatly (assistants at colleges, assistants
to pastors, missionaries in new fields, and teachers in parish-schools):”

“At present students do supply-work before their Senior Seminary year.
This arrangement is of great benefit to students and ought to be continued.