# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 01 21_S83
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especially a physical, astronomical and chemical one, will be procured as soon as possible, as means permit.

A closer consideration of the schedule of hours will show that it answers the purpose stated above of the separation of the Upper and Lower Gymnasium, inasmuch as the schedule of the latter is more adapted to practical need, and has a certain completeness; and that at the same time, by this very means, it satisfies the natural demands of the different ages of those to be instructed, and also lays a good foundation for the later scientific instruction.

A pupil of one class may also, according to circumstances and with the consent of the teachers, take part in individual subjects of instruction of another. Likewise in the Lower Gymnasium those who do not intend to enter the Upper Gymnasium may be excused from the learning of Greek.

The admission of a new pupil or scholar into any class of the one or the other division takes place according to the result of an examination which is held with him for the purpose of ascertaining the knowledge already acquired by him. The average age of one to be received into the lowest class (Quinta) will be eleven years, and the stay of a scholar in one class will amount to one year, so that the Gymnasium course is finished with the eighteenth year; yet gifts and progress have their due influence upon this.

New courses begin every time after the spring and autumn vacations, and these are therefore the most suitable times for entrance into the institution.

Shorter vacations are Christmas (14 days from the Saturday before Christmas), Easter [14 days from the Saturday before Holy Week], Pentecost [8 days], and a longer one in the autumn [5 weeks from the 24th of August].

Two school examinations are held yearly, at the close of the two courses, a non-public one before the beginning of the spring vacation, and a public one before the beginning of the autumn vacation.

Christian discipline and order are conscientiously maintained among the pupils and scholars of the institution, and the necessary care is taken for bodily welfare. With a view to the latter a gymnasium for exercise will be established.

Every half year the parents or guardians of the pupils and scholars of the institution are furnished with a report on their diligence, progress and conduct.

When a pupil or scholar has completed the course of the Upper or Lower Gymnasium, a public certificate is issued to him by the institution concerning his knowledge and his conduct, provided he submits to the examination concerned. The certificate on the successfully completed course of the Upper Gymnasium makes the recipient a graduate of the institution, with a distinction of three classes [praesertim dignus, dignus, satis dignus] according to the result of the examination.

The half-yearly tuition for instruction in the subjects listed in the course of studies amounts to $18 in the Upper Gymnasium, $12 in the Lower Gymnasium, and is paid one half at the beginning, the other half at the end of the half-yearly course and sent to the Cashier of the institution, Mr. Barthel.

Those who are provided with the requisite gifts and enter the institution with the intention of devoting themselves to the ministry will have the tuition remitted; it is expected that such as afterward change their resolution will pay the tuition for the whole time subsequently.

The fee for private instruction depends on the number of those taking part in it, and will besides be made as cheap as possible.

Parents and guardians who send sons or wards to the institution as pupils or scholars are to announce it in good time to the Director of the institution, and to add to their application a certificate of their former teacher concerning their proven diligence and previous conduct.

The building of the Concordia College lies on a height about 2 miles south of St. Louis, not far from the road to Videpoche, in a healthful and pleasant region. Since only one wing of the intended building has been erected, a part of the pupils and scholars will, if their number increases rapidly, have to live for the time being in the nearest vicinity.

Parents and guardians may deposit with one of the teachers money intended for expenses for their children and wards, as for clothing, books, pocket money, etc., and he will render them an account of it every half year.

The board in the institution amounts weekly to $1, 25. exclusive of fuel, light and washing. The yearly expenses for fuel amount to $1., for light about 3., for washing

Board in private houses is somewhat different according to circumstances, yet in general equal to that to be paid in the institution.

With regard to the payment of it, the same provisions hold as with regard to the tuition. It may likewise be sent to the Cashier of the institution, Mr. Barthel.

Every new arrival must provide himself with a bed and with towels (and have his linen plainly marked).

In now laying this notice of the Concordia College before the congregations connected with us in particular and the German public in general, we cannot refrain from calling their attention to the fact that through the Gymnasium in our College a long and generally felt need is being supplied. Hitherto children of German parents have received either a German education, and that was for the most part insufficient, or an English one, and thereby they were for the most part estranged from their kindred. In our institution there shall be given them an education which is inferior to none obtainable even in the best English institution of a similar kind in thoroughness and in compass, and by which they are not estranged from their kindred, without their remaining, on the other hand, strangers to the new circumstances.

We are conscious that in the founding and carrying on of the institution we do not seek the temporal advantage of individuals, but that we have higher aims: first the welfare of our people and of our fellow citizens in general, both the temporal, but chiefly the eternal; and this consciousness gives us the boldness to invite the congregations connected with us in particular and the public in general, yea, to lay it upon their hearts, to make use of the opportunity offered them by our institution for the education of their children and wards.

To the English public we take the liberty of calling attention to the fact that through our institution opportunity is given in this country to obtain a thorough German education, for the sake of which parents sometimes send their children to Germany, and at the same time that the German education which is given here is one adapted to the circumstances of this country. It also deserves mention that, at the wish of the persons concerned, such an arrangement can easily be made here that pupils and scholars of the institution have opportunity to learn to speak, read and write not only German and English correctly and fluently, but also French. The use of the Latin language in the Seminary and the upper Gymnasium classes as a partial means of instruction will also have something attractive for individuals, not only for the sake of proficiency in it, as the language of the learned, but also inasmuch as subjects become accessible, through presentation in it, to all who are acquainted with the language, since it requires much shorter time and far less mental exertion than is commonly believed to overcome the difficulty which may arise for understanding from the differing pronunciation of Latin.

All inquiries whatsoever concerning the institution are to be addressed in postpaid letters to the Director of the same, and will be answered in good time.

Ps. 90, 17.

Signs of the Times.

"In the evening ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; and can ye not discern the signs of the times?" So says our Lord, as we read in Matt. 16, 2. 3. From this we perceive that, although the Christian's true fatherland is heaven