# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S129
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General Institutional Matters 127

reliable information on these candidates to District Presidents and
mission boards, but that this Board have no right to place any
candidates in a permanent position. (The assumption is that the
Board would mention not only one name, but, wherever possible,
several names of men meeting as far as possible the requirements
and also state where these men served their internship. The Board
should not deal directly with congregations or individuals but follow
established rules of Synod.)

15) Resolved, That it be the fourth duty of the Board to secure
as much definite information as possible about the graduates of
former years and to impart this information to District. Presidents
and mission boards. If experience has shown that some of these
men should not enter the ministry, the Board should inform them
of its decision not to recommend them for a call.

16) Resolved, That the Board is hereby instructed to work out
the details of a plan for an internship of the graduates of the
teachers’ colleges of Synod and is hereby authorized to put this
plan into effect after it has received the approval of the College of
Presidents, and that the President of Synod is hereby authorized
to make such additions to the Board as these recommendations
call for.

17) Resolved, That the Board is hereby instructed to study the
possibility of acting as a clearing-house for definite information
particularly on younger men of special ability and to report its
findings to the next meeting of Synod.

Respectfully submitted by

A ComMITTEE OF THE COLLEGE CONFERENCE OF MILWAUKEE, WIS.
Gero. BEIDERWIEDEN Fr. F. SELLE Paut F. KoEHNEKE

(The Committee considered also a letter, Unprinted Memorial 155,
from Rev. J. F. Bauermeister, concerning this memorial.)

Report of Committee 1
Committee 1 recommends that this overture be referred to
the College of Presidents for further study and a definite recom-
mendation at the next convention.

Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.

Trend Toward General Education at Our Colleges
(Memorial 126)

Wuereas, The enrolment statistics of some synodical institu-
tions may indicate that a trend toward general Christian education
as opposed to ministerial education may be setting in; and

Wuereas, Such a trend may gradually commit Synod to an
educational policy and a program which Synod may not be willing
to undertake; therefore be it