LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1932, Page 70

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70 Proceedings of Thirty-Fifth Regular Convention,

1. Retain the present junior-college system.

2. Establish one senior college (comprising the Junior ang senio
collegiate years) at St. Louis as an undergraduate department of en
Seminary, using for the present the old Seminary building. °

3. Appoint a committee to work out the details
transition period and to draw up the curriculum.

I. In support of the necessity of extendi
cation, we submit the following facts: —

A. Life is growing increasingly
are becoming more complicated. —

B. The educational level of the Amer
stantly rising, and the educational stand
(law, medicine, engineering, education,
creased in the past decades.

C. Members of our congregations are atte
growing numbers, which will rapidly increase
University.

D. An increasingly cultured audi
edge and culture in its pastors.

egulating the
ng our ministeria} edu-
complex and pastoral Problems

ican people has been con.
ards of other Professions
etc.) have been greatly in.

nding universities in
because of Valparaiso

ence will demand greater knowl-

E. Large and increasingly important departments of learning
(physical sciences, psychology, education, sociology, ete.) which have
an intimate bearing on religious thought cannot be even surveyed by
our students in the allotted time of six years.

F. Much dissatisfaction with the existing course of ministerial
education has been vented in our circles, as a result of which the
Survey Committee was appointed at the last convention.

G. German has practically become a foreign language at all in-
stitutions, necessitating much additional time.

II. In support of retaining the junior-college
we submit the following facts: —

A. The junior college, consisting of four years’ academy and two
years’ college, is not without parallel in our country,
hundred such institutions being in existence,

B. To reduce our schools to the status of academies will prove
the cause of their gradual decay. This has’ been, with few exceptions,
the experience of academies in Norwegian Lutheran circles. It will
prove difficult to persuade parents to send their sons to our academies
when an accredited high school, offering practically the same courses,
is close by. In such surroundings our students would lose much of
their religious instruction and intimate contact with the life of the
Church.

C. We need the upper-class men (Prima and Secunda) to super-
vise the students of the four lower classes.

D. We have had favorable experience with our junior colleges

system unchanged

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