# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S886
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_ SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 189

. While no time table can be set up at this time, it is already
:. apparent that even with the smoothest of operations a senior col-
;. lege could not begin its work until the fall of 1952. If such a sched-
ule were followed, then the St.Louis seminary would have no
entering class in 1952 and 1953. Fortunately, however, the fact that
the St. Louis seminary now has four years in its program would
create a situation in which there would be only one year without
graduates from the seminary. This time would come in either 1955
or 1956, depending upon the date for opening the senior college.

In order to achieve the annual production of 200 trained sem-
inary graduates after the period of adjustment has been completed,
the Board gave extensive consideration to several possibilities.

It would, of course, be possible to expand the St. Louis facil-
ities so that the necessary number of students might be accom-

F modated.

Such an expansion would have to envision facilities to accom-
modate between 550 and 575 undergraduate students in residence.
This would mean, if we assume a normal development for the
School of Missions and the Graduate School on the St. Louis
campus, that the entire operation there would have to be designed
to accommodate approximately 700 students within the next two
decades.

Exhibit 5
Analysis of Theological Seminary Enrollments
St. Louis Springfield
On Campus | | | _ | On Campus
Enrollment Vicars Total Year Total Vicars Enrollment
425 76 | 501 1929—30 188 39 149
449 61 510 1930—31 172 39 _ 133
370 165 535 1931—32 169 26 143
386 202 588 1932—33 149 23 126
429 192 621 1933—34 126 14 112
411 166 577 1934—35 123 26 97
380 181 | 561 1935—36 131 21 110
413 167 580 1936—37 115 16 99
364 152 | 516 1937—38 116 16 100
401 58 | 459 1939—40 131 24 107
357 90 447 1940-41 125 - 17 108
365 104 469 1941—42 139 12 127
322 143 465 1942—43 155 25 130
368 110 478 1943—44 158 26 | °182
372 123 495 194445 276 46 230
333 134 - 467 1945-46 137 29 108
334 139 473 1946—-47 229 19 210
350 144 494 1947—48 265 23 242
382 125 507 1948—49 296 15 281
336 20 316

463 64 527 1949—50

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