# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S430
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the extent allowed by surplus room, without, however, offering special

. into general education unquestionably was motivated by the high

- schools) were greatly overstaffed, dormitories were vacant, the volume.

, 430°. ‘Report of Board for.Higher Education .

, Concordia College, Conover, N. C. (the latter now non-existent), all

‘College, Seward, Nebr., since 1921.’ For many years prior to this

church service. A final provision, however, stated that if ‘ever it
became advisable, the: institution should provide other curricu
but the original purpose was to be continually observed. .. .. on

- ‘With the exception of St, John’s College, Winfield, Kans., and

other preparatory colleges and academies were founded or cam
under synodical control as institutions whose sole purpose was the:
preparation of students for the pastorate or for parish school teaching.’
No curricular provision was made for the occasional: student: wh
entered these schools in preparation for secular callings. :
At the present time the junior colleges at Milwaukee, Wis. St.
Paul, Minn., and Concordia, Mo., have. no expanded - program ‘of +
general education, and, in consequence, practically no courses’ are
offered outside the pretheological curriculum. - ;
. St. John’s College, Winfield, Kans., since its establishment ‘in ;
1893, has had general education and co-education. - oY
Concordia Collegiate Institute, Bronxville, N. Y., made provision:
for general students to the extent of an endowed professorship in the
natural sciences as early as 1908, but real expansion of the curriculum '°
took place about 1919 in the high school and as recently as 1935 in 4
the college. Authorized by Synod as an educational experiment, the. ’:
college division accepts women students since 1939. ‘The latter. also.»
is true of Concordia College, Oakland, Calif.

Concordia College, Austin, Tex., and Concordia College, Portland,
Oreg:, though small schools, have accepted relatively high percentages «.
of non-theological male students since the late twenties. .

In. 1935 Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind., entered into an ;
agreement with the Lutheran High School Association regarding the‘
use of college property’ for high school purposes. A’ separaté .
co-educational high school was created at the college in that year. : :

Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, Ill, has accepted women:
students for teacher training since 1938, and Concordia Teachers -:

time they admitted male students preparing for secular callings to

courses for such students.
The recent experimental expansion of Synod’s professional schools *

ideals of serving our Lutheran members in educating their children in
a Christian environment and of serving the Church in training a con
secrated laity. a a

It appears, however, that the great urge on the part of most of th
pretheological schools to expand into secular education was -precipi-
tated by very practical considerations. The depression years of the
nineteen-thirties brought startling declines in enrollment. Some

of: uncollected student accounts mounted, and academic casualties’