LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1932, Page 75

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76 Proceedings of Thirty-Fifth Regular Convention

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Conventions and to urge the several Districts to
conventions.

Respectfully submitted by
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H.F.C. WerzeL, Cha;
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H. J. Ettine, Secretary. ™

President Kreinhede i
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the cause of Valparaiso University to Synod. y briefly to Present

Advisory Committee for Valparaiso,
Synod instructed the Board o

‘ f Directors to ; .
visory Committee for Valparaiso. *Ppont a Standing Aq.

Report of Committee on Support of Indi
(Memorial 606. )

, At its last convention Synod passed th
Resolved, That the venerable President of S
a committee of such men as are familiar with

gent Students,

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such committee shall make its report and recommendation to Synod
a ve next (35th) regular convention.” (Proceedings, 1999 p63.)
e Ven. President of Synod appointed the undersigned com:

some cases also books, clothes, and other expenses) paid by Districts,
ee ee congregations, individuals, or out of the special indigent
udents’ funds held in trust by the various institutions. These sup-

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’for remunerative employment make it impossible for either all our ”

Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1932. 77

rted students your Committee believes are those whom Synod had
ind in its resolution.
. 8. Both the time required for study and the limited opportunity

students or even those who are being supported to make full return
in the way of work in consideration for the benefits received.

Your Committee recommends —

1) That Synod continue to grant free tuition and housing to
those of its students who are preparing for work in the Church (min-
isters and teachers), even as the State furnishes like free privileges
jn its grammar and high schools and its State universities.

2) Since parents should consider it a privilege if they have a son
whom they can dedicate to the Lord for His work in the Church, they
should, if their means permit it, consider it their duty to pay the
necessary expense, board, and other personal expenses, especially since
the Church supplies free tuition and housing.

3) Since many a boy or young man who is well qualified could
not be procured for work in our churches and schools if support would
not be granted to such parents as are not financially able to see their
son through college, the practise of supporting indigent students
should be continued.

4) Since many a poor boy would be eliminated by the rule that
support be withheld during the first year, boards for indigent students
should be advised against the adoption of such a regulation. Con-
tinued support, however, should be granted only upon the recom-
mendation of the respective faculty.

5) Since many of the students who have been enrolled at our
colleges did not finally enter the services ‘of the Church, and since
perhaps even some of those who did ought not to have been permitted
to do so, much greater care in the selection of all students should be
exercised, and all students who are not giving evidence of due dili-
gence in pursuing their studies, even though they are making passing
grades, or who lack the necessary personal qualifications (moral
integrity, consecration, health, alert mind, gift of speech) should not
be permitted to continue their studies, regardless of whether they are
being supported or not; and since all this, as a rule, can be definitely
known and determined before the student finishes his high-school
course and certainly before he enters the Seminary classes, the elimi-
nation of students should be made by the tespective faculties prior to
that time, it being understood that this be done only after ample op-
portunity has been given the student to prove himself worthy or
unworthy of the benefits which he is receiving from the Church or
any of its organizations.

6) Since all. our students receive free tuition and housing on the
part of Synod, ail students ought to be ready to do some manual or