LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1920, Page 14

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Proceedings of Thirty-First Nationa] Convention, -
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Board of Education. - ' Superintendent,
(Germ. Rep., p. 34.) .
The Pastors’ and Teachers’ Conference of Fort Wayne .
Vicinity presented a memorial asking Synod to elect
Education to carry out uniformly the educational Tesolutiong ,

at Detroit and to empower this Board to appoint a Superiy =
for our higher educational system. » Sadent

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Action.

Synod resolved to refer this matter to a committee
the Chair for further deliberation and for recommen
next convention.

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Annual Institution Sunday.

Action to this effect was requested in a memorial of the No
Illinois District; Synod, however, declined to Pass such resolution.

Report of the Survey Committee.
(Germ. Rep., Pp. 35. 36.)

The Convention of 1917 ordered the President in con,
with the four Vice-Presidents to appoint a Committee on Educational
Survey. This Committee, consisting of P. Roesener, F. Tresselt, .
W. Dallmann, ©. F. Brommer, and O. L. Hohenstein, made a complete
survey of our educational institutions with respect to educational
standards and courses of instruction. They report that the men
who compose the faculties of our institutions are faithful and Pious
professors who at all times have endeavored to train up not only

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make a higher standard of education imperative. To this end they
made a number of recommendations. ‘These together with memorials’

from other sources and the reports of the various local boards led
to the following resolutions: —

Resolutions Concerning Higher Education.
(Germ. Rep., Pp. 35.)

In order to awaken love and zeal for study, it was resolved that
the professors again and again hold before their pupils the high aims
and the glorious purpose of their various studi .
lower classes especially are to receive the necessary directions for
solving their problems, and, in general, for studying correctly. Where