# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S165
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 168

candidates commensurate with the Statistically indicated
future needs of the Church and the Possibility of more
effective control over the volume of candidates produced
by the system.

2. An opportunity to evaluate the results of any necessary ad-
justments and to appraise evidence of desirable or undesir-
able outcomes within our own system of education without
risking irretrievable loss of essential features of our present

program.

a senior college.

4. The development of a program which is sufficiently flexible
to be applied in whole or in part without extensive disrup-
tion or loss of existing educational services.

5. A more efficient use of existing facilities for all types of pro-
fessional training (including teacher training and graduate
levels of instruction) through recognition of the principle
that there need not necessarily be uniformity of program
and services offered in every synodical institution of sim-
ilar classification.

Theological Seminaries
The growth studies which have been prepared by the Board

* The introduction of a senior college in 1954 or 1955 would redu
idate production over the period 1951—1956 to ze
ot approximately ion pe an annual average

3. The creation of conditions favorable to the introduction of

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