# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S152
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150 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

the spiritual, educational, and financial implications for our y, 33
as a Synod has been examined and re-examined. As a result yo E
Board finally concluded that there are only three basically differs:
approaches to our problem; accordingly, it undertook to prep
detailed specifications for each of these. All of the proposals Werg
subjected to microscopic analysis and appraisal by competent j
viduals and groups in synodical circles and in the field of
education. The Board’s present recommendations are based on the
conviction that our Synod’s purposes will be served best if it takes
favorable action on the last of the three possibilities presen
Plan A . ;

A study of the feasibility of using this occasion as an oppor.’
tunity to create for Synod an ideal system of colleges and semj.'
naries by arranging for a smaller number of larger and more
efficient schools adequate for the production of the indicated num.:
ber of required workers and the establishment of a senior college,
Plan B

A study of the feasibility of undertaking a practical rearrange.
ment of the existing system so that a senior college plus an ade.
quate volume of professional personnel could be achieved through
remodeling and addition, but without closing schools or supplying
a new campus and constructing an additional physical plant.
Plan C

A study of the feasibility of achieving the desired objective
eventually by undertaking an experimental approach at this time:

Exhibit 15 Missouri Synod College Enrollment
1949—1950
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Austin, Tex. 95. AL 69 26
Bronxville, N. Y. -.... 274 120 109 165

Concordia, Mo. ..... 149 45 129 20
Edmonton, Alta... 124 45 59 65.
Fort Wayne, Ind. ...... 240 70 240 _
Milwaukee, Wis. -.. 267 7 - 257 10
Oakland, Calif. ....... 210 82 80 130
Portland, Oreg. ........ 80. 26 48 32
St. Paul, Minn... 231 89 176 55

Winfield, Kans. ...... 410 187 270 140

Total, 1949-50 . 2,080 782 1,437* 643
Total, 194849 _

* Of these, 245 are teacher training students.