# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S49
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Report of the Committee on Higher Education 49

recommendation made on page 66, IV. The Board for Higher Edu-
cation is to study also this question.

6. Your Committee recommends the adoption of this paragraph.
We furthermore recommend that Synod instruct the Board for
Higher Education:

1) To study the question and make recommendations to Synod
in regard to a graduated, orderly plan for retirement of professors;

2) To make recommendations to Synod for the improvement of
Synod’s present plan for the removal from office of incompetent or
incapacitated professors,

3) To study the need and advisability of Synod’s differentiating
between several kinds of teachers at its institutions, such as instruc-
tors, assistant professors, and professors, and to define and clarify
the status of each.

7. Your Committee recommends that this paragraph be re-
ceived and the office of Director of Religious Education be further
studied on the basis of this report by the Board for Higher Edu-
cation.

8. Your Committee recommends adoption of this paragraph, the
recommendation to read: “We herewith recommend that Synod en-
courage these colleges to make further provision for the ‘in-service
training’ of those who teach in our schools, since this involves no
additional expenditures to Synod.”

9. Your Committee recommends the adoption of this threefold
recommendation, with the amendment that Point 3 read as follows:
“That the refining process in speech-training be continued at the
theological seminaries” (“in the first-year homiletics course” to be
stricken).

10. Your Committee recommends that this recommendation be
adopted after the elimination of the final clause: ‘“‘such grants to be
made to the schools only upon recommendation of the proposed
Board for Higher Education.” 7

Your Committee holds that this resolution disposes also of
Overture 130, p. 57. ;

11. Your Committee recommends adoption of this recommen-
dation.

12. Your Committee recommends that this point be adopted.
This answers also Overture 127, p. 55, and Unprinted Memorial 56.

’ aetion of Synod: This report of Committee 1 with its recom-
mendations was adopted by Synod.

It was also resolved that the present Committee on Higher
Education continue in office and be empowered to function until the
new Board for Higher Education is ready to take over the work.

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