# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S93
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Ev. Luth.: Synod: of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 81

students as the faculty of the respective institution can recommend
for such support on the basis of their scholastic standing, application,
Christian character, and deportment.”

Your Committee thought it would be well if the terms scholar-
ship, application, and Christian character and deportment were de-
fined and therefore offers the following definitions: —

A. Scholarship, i. e¢., sufficient mental ability to do the work at
the respective institution and the work for which the student is being
trained.

B. Application, consistent and determined effort to do the as-
signed work well.

C. Christian character and deportment. The student must give
evidence of a Christian character by the application of the Christian
religion to his daily life.

Your Committee was further instructed “to take all the necessary
steps to bring about the support of students in’ accordance with
Synod’s resolutions.” In compliance with this resolution of Synod
your Committee sent a mimeographed copy of its minutes to all boards
for indigent students and to all faculties of Synod’s educational
institutions.

Joun H.C. Fritz, Chairman. G. Cur. Barty, Secretary.

This repert was received by Synod.

Concordia College, Fort Wayne, and the Luther Institute.
(Memorial 120.)

The undersigned congregations of Fort Wayne and vicinity beg
leave to submit the following for your serious consideration and
favorable action.

In Fort Wayne, as in many other circles of our Synod, there
has during recent years been a growing desire for a standard four-
year Lutheran high school. Such a school would continue the Chris-
tian training of our boys and girls during the critical years of ado-
lescence. It would receive and guide our children at a time when
they are very susceptible to adverse moral and spiritual influences
and would endeavor to make of them more intelligent and active
church-members.

For a number of years our congregations in and about Fort
Wayne have, it is true, maintained Luther Institute, which offers
a two-year business course, in the hope that these objectives would
be attained. This school has been productive of much good. It
must be said, however, that it is no longer adequate for the purposes
which we desire to achieve. Conditions in the educational and eco-
nomic world have so radically changed during the last decade or two
that a two-year business training in addition to the elementary edu-

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