# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S88
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

86 Seminaries and Colleges. — Individual Institutions

Request to Cancel Remaining Debt on Edmonton Site
(Unprinted Memorial 118)

The Alberta and British Columbia District, assembled in con-
vention at Stony Plain, Alberta, June 30 to July 6, 1937, adopted
a number of resolutions by which it hoped to pay off a portion of
a debt of $3,694.13 remaining on the Edmonton College site. Realiz-
ing, however, that the task would be difficult and that the objective
might not be reached, the District also passed the following reso-
lution, to wit,

That at the end of the year 1940 the Alberta and British Co-
lumbia District respectfully petition Synod to write off and cancel
all remaining debt.

In accordance with the above resolutions this petition is now
placed before Synod.

THE ALBERTA AND British CotumB1a District
Rev. W.C. Errert, President Rev. A. FENSKE, Secretary

Report of Committee 1
This memorial requests that Synod write off a debt of approxi-
mately $3,000 in the form of unpaid pledges on the Edmonton
property. Committee 1 recommends that this request be granted.

Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.

Concordia College, Austin, Texas
Report of the Board of Control
(Memorial 114)

The Board of Control of the Lutheran Concordia College at
Austin, Tex., hereby respectfully petitions the Hon. Synod of Mis-
souri, Ohio, and Other States to permit our Concordia to call a
permanent professor for the science courses. We offer the fol-
lowing reasons:

1. We have now operated for fourteen years under an emer-
gency arrangement whereby the science teacher changes every
two years. Since the school is now firmly established, we feel that
it ought to be given permanency in every department.

2. The present set-up is unsatisfactory from several angles:

a. The respective assistant professor (candidate) is unduly
handicapped by reason of his inexperience and his almost complete
lack of training in the field and by the resultant laborious efforts
he must make to acquaint himself with the course, only to find
after two years, when he would be able to teach with pleasure to
himself and profit to his classes, he must move on.

b. The respective science classes are continually subjected
to the amateur efforts of a novice. Graduates of our system have
taken the courses in question (on the high-school level) seven and
ten years, respectively, before they are expected to teach them