# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S872
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‘SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 175

* the spiritual, educational, and financial implications for our work
” as a Synod has been examined and re-examined, As a result your
Board finally concluded that there are only three basically different
F’ approaches to our problem; accordingly, it undertook to prepare
4 detailed specifications for each of these. All of the proposals were
4 subjected to microscopic analysis and appraisal by competent indi-
‘ viduals and groups in synodical circles and in the field of secular
e education. The Board’s present recommendations are based on the
. conviction that our Synod’s purposes will be served best if it takes
fF’ favorable action on the last of the three possibilities presented:
t Plan A

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

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

« A study of the feasibility of achieving the desired objectives
_ eventually by undertaking an experimental approach at this time.

4 ; cmaeaiadlians Missouri Synod College Enrollment
1949—1950
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College ge 38 agg euGEE ges agaes
Fe FE $582 Zacke| ees 28 s8s
Fi & 89d esyeg) og egeg
F Austin, Tex. _...... 95 41 69 26 17 56
&. Bronxville, N. Y. ...... 274 120 109 165 292 115
&. Concordia, Mo, ....... 149 45 129 20 146 130
— Edmonton, Alta. ..... 124 45 59 65 111 55
e Fort Wayne, Ind. . 240 70 240 —_ 236 236
j Milwaukee, Wis. _... 267 17 257 10 - 258 244
& Oakland, Calif. 210 82 80 130 199 67
q Portland, Oreg, _...... 80 26 48 32 80 46
St. Paul, Minn, _........ 231 89 176 55 235 177
5. Winfield, Kans... 410 187 270 140 377 237
6 Total, 1949-50 _ 2,080 782 1,437* 643
Total, 1948—49 _ 2,011 1,363

* Of these, 245 are teacher training students.