# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S267
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Financial Matters 267

“Wuereas, Because of these and other considerations the Board
of Directors of the said Synod has conveyed to the said Orphan
Home the title to the said real estate; therefore be it

“Resolved, That the action of the said Board of Directors in
conveying to the said Orphan Home the title to the said real estate
be, and the same is, hereby ratified.”

12. Statistician. —- Members of Synod everywhere have
mourned the death of our faithful Statistician and Chronologist,
the Rev. E. Eckhardt. The vacancy has been filled temporarily;
but the Board of Directors recommends to Synod to make these
two offices appointive instead of elective and to change its regula-
tions accordingly.

B. Education and Educational Institutions

The Board of Directors is the successor to the former General
Board of Control (Allgemeine Aufsichtsbehoerde). It is therefore
to exercise general supervision over all our seminaries and col-
leges and must keep in close touch with the local boards of con-
trol, who are directly in charge of the institutions but are held
to give reports to the general board, in some matters being bound
to get the consent of the Board of Directors before taking final
action. We therefore submit in the following a report on the edu-
cational policies in which we have an interest from the financial
angle, as well as on action that had to be taken affecting the
various educational institutions.

I. General Educational Policies

1) Opening Our Schools to Non-ministerial Students. Co-
education. — Synod itself has lowered the tuition for such students
at our colleges as are not intending to prepare for the work of the
Church. This seems to lend encouragement to those who would
definitely go beyond the former policy of Synod, which was to
accept also non-ministerial students who are satisfied to take the
same courses which the ministerial students are taking. It is evi-
dent that many members of Synod think we should make use of
the partly empty buildings at some of our institutions to admit
those, also girls, who do not intend to serve the Church directly
but would get a Christian higher education in various branches of
learning. When such requests came to us as to admit girls to
take part in the educational facilities of our institutions, we were
conscious of the fact that the Committee on Higher Education is
to study these questions and that Synod alone can make this
change in its policies. But your Board as such is also interested
in this matter from the financial angle. We therefore discussed
the situation with the chairman of the Committee on Higher Edu-

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