# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S642
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

58 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

kansas, Southern Illinois, Southern Iowa, and Eastern Nebras
for this college. The now sainted Dr. Walther and also the n

5. We are not against the Winfield College, on account of Mat
9: 36-38.
6. Our college in Concordia is the cheapest for the students

our Synod. So many Lutherans of this eighborhood bring mu
potatoes and other fruits. , Rev. F. A. Mean

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New Building at Bronxville

cordia Collegiate Institute in Bronxville, N. Y. Throughout thes
years it has been possible for our organization to render extensivi
service to the school in numerous ways; by financing the removz
of the school from Hawthorne to Bronxville, by endowing pro
fessorships, by purchasing necessary equipment for its program ‘a
education, especially by undertaking the collection of funds fo
the erection of Schoenfeld Memorial Gymnasium ($175,000.00)
and by providing the funds for one of the women’s residences. *o
almost four decades our Society has assisted the Board of Trustee:
and Synod in enabling Concordia to meet the demands for minis
terial and lay education in the Lutheran Church of the East.

For some time the Board of Trustees, no less than the Lu
theran Education Society, has recognized the urgent need for more

adequate facilities in library services and in the science courses

Library. The library is housed in a double classroom most %
inconveniently located on the fourth floor of the Administration ¥
Building. Since the library separates the two classroom wings or
this floor, it is impossible to avoid frequent disturbances wher
students pass through the library from classroom to classroo
The space is wholly inadequate for housing the book collection, and
the crowded conditions do not provide a suitable atmosphere fo:
concentrated study. 3

A single adjoining classroom must house all the general stack :
as well as the valuable E. G. Sihler Collection. The stacks exter
to the ceiling and are reached by a wooden scaffolding on
sides of the room. In addition, this one room must serve as boo
bindery and librarian’s office. Under these conditions the stac
simply cannot be made accessible to the students.

All of these inadequacies are a constant handicap to teachei
and to students; they tend to discourage the use of the library.
which is the heart of the school’s academic program. ;

Science. Three laboratories are located in the basement of th