# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S54
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

54 Seminaries and Colleges. — Individual Institutions

Continuing the high-school division on an economical basis
could be achieved also by having the curriculum include two or
three years of Latin and one year of Greek for boys planning to
prepare for the ministry and living near Seward, who now must
travel 300 or more miles for their high-school work at a sister
institution,

To make the high-school work more flexible and more
adaptable to varying needs for both our own distinctive purposes
and to afford our Lutheran youth more opportunity to obtain
a Christian training, to which we as a Church are so definitely
committed, we believe the inclusion of secretarial training and
perhaps a prenursing course in the curriculum would be of
great value. ,

We request Synod therefore to authorize the Board for Higher
Education in conjunction with the local faculty and Board of
Control to work out a satisfactory solution.

Library

The inadequacy of our library for the instruction program of
the college applies to books as well as to equipment and space.
Synod at its convention in 1938 appropriated $3,160 for enlargement
and equipment of the reading-room and stack-room. Since this
money was not paid out to us, only a small part of the approved
plan could be carried out under the consent of Synod’s Board of
Directors, with money procured from another source. Therefore
we petition Synod to authorize the Board of Directors to grant at
once the payment of one thousand dollars of the appropriated sum,
so that the most necessary work can be completed before the
opening of the new school-year.

We also petition Synod to have the annual appropriation for
library purposes be not less than $500, as formerly allowed the
seminaries,

Accreditation with the North Central Association of Colleges

Early in 1940 steps were taken to have the Seward institution
accredited with the North Central Association of Colleges, and
a most comprehensive and thoroughgoing survey of our institution
was made by a committee to determine whether the institution is
equipped and able to live up to its avowed and designated purpose.

Admission of our institution to membership in the association
depends on the remedying of certain deficiencies to meet the
standards set by the association as minimum requirements. Various
measures have already been, or will be, enacted by the faculty
and the Board for this purpose. But some of the matters em-
phasized in the survey report are beyond the jurisdiction of the