# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S45
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 45

VI. Postgraduate Department at the St. Louis Seminary.
Action of Synod.
Upon recommendation of Committee 1, Synod adopted the proposal of the
Committee on Higher Education: —
1) That this department be resumed as soon as possible;
2) That the faculty in St. Louis require definite scholastic and theological
standards as entrance requirement for the graduate school.

VII. Lengthening of School-Year.
Action of Synod.

Upon recommendation of Committee 1, Synod adopted the following state-
ment of the Committee on Higher Education (Memorial 126, p. 72): —

As Synod is not in a position to institute the sabbatical year for our
professors, and as not a few of our professors are taking summer courses
at universities, your Committee considered the lengthening of the school-year
at our colleges not advisable.

VIII.

Synod took note of the fact that the following memorials of 1932 have been
taken into consideration: “Religious Instruction and Missionary Training at
Our Colleges and Seminaries” (Memorial 118); “Systematic Reading of
Luther’s Works in our Theological Seminaries” (Memorial 119); “Practical
Course on the Use of the Speaking Voice for Our Ministerial Seminaries”
(Memorial 121).

IX.
The Committee on Higher Education reported : —

Your Committee deliberated upon the suggestion made in Memorial 128
(1932 Report, pp. 74.75) regarding some combination between our college at
Fort Wayne or our Teachers’ College at River Forest with Valparaiso Uni-
versity; but we regard such a combination as not feasible.

Committee 1 recommended that no combination between our college at
Fort Wayne or our Teachers’ College at River Forest with Valparaiso be con-
templated because it is not feasible.

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

B. Action on Reports of the Boards of Control.

Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.
(Memorial 101.)

Since the last convention, held at Milwaukee in 1932, Concordia Seminary
has been carrying on its work under the new arrangement whereby those stu-
dents who have completed their second - year at the Seminary must interrupt
their studies for a year before they can complete their work. During the
school-year 1982—33, 153 students were not at the Seminary for this interim