# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S107
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Report of Board for Higher Education 105

d. The fourth source of funds shall be supplemental financial
aid which the Board of Directors is hereby authorized to grant,
upon recommendation of the Board for Higher Education, to in-
stitutions having especially pressing needs.

4. That any specific appropriations which the synodical con-
vention of 1941 may make for library buildings or library equip-
ment or library personnel in any particular institution be deducted
from the amounts of required aid indicated in paragraph 2, a. b, d.

Concerning Laboratory Fees, Section F, point 11:

Committee 1 recommends that all students in the science
courses should be charged a minimum laboratory fee in the high-
school and survey courses. In the science courses in colleges and
seminaries the fee should be somewhat higher. In this way the
students will contribute to the laboratory equipment. Every local
Board of Control should exercise due care that all the money
coming in from students will be wisely expended.

Concerning Laboratory Equipment, Section F, point 12:

Committee 1 recommends that the Fiscal Conference be
authorized to consider the possibility of making available $15,000
for the next triennium for laboratory equipment.

Concerning the Calling of Professors, under Section G:

Your Committee recommends:

1. That the present system of nominating candidates for pro-
fessorships be retained:

2. That the Board for Higher Education become a clearing-
house for information concerning prospective candidates for pro-
fessorships;

3. That a member of the Board for Higher Education be
present at elections as an advisory member of the respective
electoral college.

Concerning the retirement of professors, under Section G,
Committee I recommended the following:

1. That a plan of retirement be introduced in our synodical
institutions gradually over a period of ten years and with deep
regard for the welfare of the older men now in service at our
institutions. During the next ten years the local Board of Control
and the Board for Higher Education will necessarily have to con~
sider each case individually. Exceptions to the proposed plan will
undoubtedly decrease as the younger members of our faculties
come to the age of retirement under the protection of the Pen-
sion Plan.

2. When a professor reaches the age of 65, the possible reduc-
tion of his teaching load shall automatically come up for con-
sideration. Whatever adjustments may be desirable or necessary