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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1935, Page 84

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84 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

According to our plan our junior colleges would offer chiefly 4 cultural
course (allgemewme Bildung). Hebrew, Patristic Latin and Greek, and New
Testament Greek are professional studies and would be eliminated from the
junior-college course. The pretheological year at St. Louis would offer courses
in the Bible (English and German), Hebrew, New Testament Greek, Patristic
Latin and Greek, Pedagogy, Philosophy, Logic, Sociology, and History (show-
ing contacts with, and contrasts between, secular and eburch history). The
pretheological year would bridge the existing gaP between the collegiate an’
the theological courses and would bring the student into the theological atmos-
phere and to a@ realization of his life’s ambition at the earliest possible moment.
Our tentative curriculum has been submitted to several nationally known
secular educators, who have approved it as pedagogically sound.

3) This plan is economical for Synod. The plan is feasible with the
present housing conditions at St. Louis. On the basis of a careful analysis it
seems reasonably certain that the combined enrolment of the four classes in
St. Louis after some years will not greatly exceed the number of 400 and could
therefore be accommodated in the present dormitories at St. Louis. Should
the number be larger, due in part also to the resumption of the Post-graduate
Department, Synod could make temporary provisions for the housing of a num-
ber of students. The djning-hall and the classroom facilities are ample to
take care of more than 400 students. The plan calls for an increase of the
St. Louis faculty by four men and the ultimate erection of the necessary
dwellings. .

Action of Synod.
Upon recommendation of Committee 1, Synod resolved: —

4. That we yetain our present system of ministerial education, yevise the E
high-school and junior-college curriculum, and add one year to our course in §
the Seminary at St. Louis. ‘

2, That the President and the four Vice-Presidents of Synod be instructed
to appoint a Committee on Higher Education. This committee js to appoint §
a Committee on Curriculum, the majority of which shall consist of professors §
of the seminaries at St. Louis and Springfield and the junior colleges.

3. All matters pertaining to the curriculum both in the junior colleges and
in the seminaries at St. Louis and Springfield shall be decided by this Cur: §
rieulum Committee. The principles laid down in the report of the Committee L
of Thirteen shall serve a8 4 guide.

4, The Committee on Higher Education is to decide when the new plan is¥
to go into effect and is to supervise the introduction of this new curriculum. F

8, The Committee on Higher Education shall also appoint a Curriculum §
Committee for the normal schools, the majority of which shall consist of
members .of the faculties of the two normal schools, and supervise the in-
troduction of their new curriculum.

6. That the Board of Control of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis be
authorized to call as many professors — not more, however, than four — 28
in the opinion of such board and the faculty of the Seminary may be necessary
at the introduction of the fourth year. ‘