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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1926, Page 71

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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1926, T1

soon have reached the climax in the enrolment of students at our
colleges and for that reason ought tobe conservative as to the estab-
lishment of new professorships; b) that, after all, a limited employ-
ment of assistants offers a flexibility of action and adjustment which
ought not to be overlooked.

We submit the following recommendations: that Milwaukee be
granted two professors, St. Paul two, Bronxville one, Winfield two,
Oakland one, Edmonton one, Austin one, Porto Alegre two.

The recommendations were adopted.

May Older Professors Interrupt Their Work to Continue Their
Studies’ Elsewhere ?

(German Report, p. 131.)

Synod’s Board of Directors called attention to the fact that there
was a tendency at various colleges to permit professors who have
served their institution for some time to absent themselves fora year
in order to take advanced. courses at some higher institution of
learning. It reported that the Board had several times been asked to
approve such an arrangement. It therefore asked Synod to declare

its policy in such questions. An unprinted memorial from the Fort
Wayne Board of Control petitioned Synod to answer this question in
the affirmative.

Action. ~

Resolved, To consider all such applications as special cases, the
solution of which is to be left to the Board of Control of the insti-
tution from which the request comes and to the Board of Directors.

Professors’ Residences.
(German Report, p. 135.)

Most local boards requested professors’ residences, ‘in all about
thirty. Committee 1 pointed out that by such an arrangement Synod
would save about $50,000 in rent and therefore recommended that
Synod appropriate $350,000 for such residences, to be expended sub-
ject to the consent of the Board of Directors. — So resolved.

Creation of New Professorships.
(Memorial 19. — German Report, p. 135.)

In view of the report that the Hon. College of Presidents had
created a new professorship at each of our teachers’ seminaries, River
Forest and Seward, we, the members of the North Indiana and
Northwest Ohio Conference of the Central District, assembled at
Valparaiso, Ind., October 6—8, 1925,. feel constrained to point out
that such action is neither authorized by the Constitution of Synod,
nor does it accord with the principles. by which our fathers were