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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1926, Page 67

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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1926. 67

President suggested that conferences deliberate whether these two
classes should be added at one or at several colleges at first, or
whether the two new classes should be separated from the present
colleges and a separate institution be maintained for that purpose.

The Arkansas and West Tennessee Pastoral Conference in its
sessions of April 14—17, 1925, at Memphis, Tenn., resolved to make
this overture to Synod (1926) and asks the Western District Synod
to endorse it, with whatever changes it sees fit.

The Arkansas and West Tennessee Pastoral Conference recom:
mends: —

A. That two classes be added to the present college curriculum.
We shall then have a full high school and a full college course.

NB. The reasons for adding two classes in our college course are
obvious : —

a) Demands made upon ministers to-day make it hardly possible
to obtain the proper education in the course of six years.

b) Other Lutheran bodies have already arranged a coursé in-
cluding these two extra classes, and we ought not to fall behind.

B. That for the first these classes be made optional.

NB. If ail the graduates of all our. ‘eolleges entered these extra
classes, Synod would be without graduates from our St. Louis sem-
inary for two years. This would greatly hinder the work which we
are called to do.

C. That a separate institution for the new classes be arranged.

a) This arrangement would insure a greater uniformity in the
studies during the last years of the preparatory course.

b) Students coming from various colleges would be associated
and linked together preparatory to their working together in sem-
inary and Synod.

_¢) For many of. the students it would be a new beginning, with
new environments, a fresh incentive, to finish the two extra classes
at a different school.

d) The special needs of these two classes could be arranged more
easily and more efficiently at one school than at several institutions,

e) The discipline and the regulations for a school-of students in
these extra classes are of a different nature than at a school where
there are young boys of twelve years and upward.

D. That the present seminary buildings at St. Louis be utilized
for the separate institution for these extra classes.

a) This would keep the professors and students in close touch
with the.seminary, which certainly would exert a wholesome in-

fluence, leading to mutual understanding and cooperation.

b) Buildings still in good condition would be made use of and
a saving of money would be effected. For many years to come there

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