# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S47
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Report of the Committee on Higher Education, 47

educational and social conditions in our own congregations. Our
two teachers’ colleges have been alive to this need and have been
making provision to meet it. (See pages 120—122 in the Manual
-of the Committee on Curriculum for Teachers’ Colleges.) Your
Committee appreciates the work done hitherto at River Forest and
Seward in their summer-schools and other special efforts, and we
herewith recommend that Synod encourage these colleges to make
further provision for the “in-service training” of those who teach
in our schools.

9. Public Speaking — Speech-Training.—The importance of
the correct use ofthe voice by preachers and teachers can scarcely
be overestimated. Voice culture and speech-training should there-
fore have a place in our curriculum, but not in the style of modern
courses in elocution. Until more adequate measures can be adopted,
we recommend: (1) that at every junior college, the Springfield
Seminary, and the two teachers’ colleges a member of the faculty
be appointed who is best qualified to be in charge of voice- and
speech-training; (2) that every instructor should make it a matter
of concern to help students in improving their speech; (3) that the
refining process in speech-training be continued in the first-year
homiletics course at the theological seminaries.

10. Physical Education. — The physical health of our students
is another matter of great importance, involving as it does grave
consequences for the later life of service. Your Committee gave
considerable thought to the status and the pay of the directors of
physical education in our schools. Several boards of control hav-
ing indicated that they will petition Synod for a special grant to pay
the whole or part of the salary of the Director of Physical Educa-
tion, we herewith recommend that Synod make an allowance not to
exceed six hundred dollars ($600) per annum for instruction in
physical education (which means either salary or equipment), such
grants to be made to the schools only upon recommendation of the
proposed Board for Higher Education.

11. Courses in Shorthand and Typewriting. (See Proceedings
1935, p. 48.) — Since the student load in regular courses is already
rather heavy, the curricular committees could find no room for
a required course in shorthand and typewriting. Committee A
therefore recommends that as heretofore student groups volun-
tarily organize for extracurricular practise in those skills that may
prove very helpful.

12. Tuition. — The whole problem of institutional financing,
more particularly regarding tuition-fees for all classes of students,
was studied in two papers that were discussed in a joint session of
Committees A, B, and C. Your Committee is not convinced that