# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S55
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Seminaries and Colleges. — Individual Institutions 55

faculty and the Board of Control, which need to be acted upon by
Synod and by its Board for Higher Education; viz.:

I. A. The inadequacy of the library must be remedied, as
mentioned above.

B. Furthermore, we need the services of a trained librarian.
It is plainly evident from our experience up to the present time
that an attempt to administer our college library on the level of
our needs by placing a librarian in charge who has a full teaching
load, is not a professionally trained librarian, and must operate
with untrained assistants, is an impossible situation. Therefore
we must remedy the present unsatisfactory condition and in justice
to our students improve our library service.

II. Synod must be clear in its concepts and statement of aims
and purposes of the college. At present the purposes and aims
of Concordia Teachers’ College at Seward are stated in the
Articles of Incorporation (Handbook of 1927, p.167) as follows:

A. To train teachers for positions in the Christian day-schools
of the Lutheran Church:

1. as certificated educators on the elementary level;

2. as ministers of religion among our youth;

3. as ministers of music in the Church.

B. To provide educational advantages to such as are in
sympathy with this program of instruction, for general education.

1. General students are such as avail themselves of the courses
offered without the intention of directly serving the Church.

9. General education in this sense must not be confused with
the term general education as applied to a full liberal-arts course.

In view of these purposes and aims we ask Synod to continue
its support by keeping the instructional staff at full strength and
to make adequate allowances for the library. And in order to
maintain economic efficiency, it is advisable to adhere to the
practice of admitting, as heretofore, all students who are in
* sympathy with our programs of instruction.

UII. Administration.

A. In regard to choosing faculty members we have been ad-
vised the method should be so amended as to permit securing in-
structors specifically fitted to carry on the work in line with the ~
specific purpose of the institution.

B. In regard to the duties of the president of the faculty as
the responsible executive officer of the institution, it is necessary
to release him of certain routine work, which takes up much of
his time and which could be performed by others under his in-