# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S8
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

8 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

The Seminary library has endeavored to keep pace with the
rapid growth of the student body and the greater demands of the
graduate school, extension department, summer school, and out-
side requests for its materials and services, but has been greatly
hampered by lack of personnel and a limited budget in the face
of rising costs of books and materials. Future growth of the student
body and demands will work an ever greater hardship in this:
direction.

Through an allocation allowed by Synod’s Committee on
Allocation of Funds for Scholarly Research, German theological
material published since World War I has been channeled to our
library and at the present time is being processed to our shelves.
Some 1,000 volumes are involved.

We have been fortunate in having received the entire Greek
and Latin classical library of the former Chancellor of Washington
University, George Reeves Throop, more than 2,000 valuable vol-
umes. A liberal gift from persons in the Texas District has made
possible the establishment of a Dr. Francis Pieper Memorial Col-
lection, which now contains some 350 volumes of the Greek and
Latin Migne Patrologiae.

Future plans include the conversion of the library to the
Library of Congress Classification system. This will be a huge
task and will require most careful planning.

Our present needs include mor@@gpace for expansion and an
additional full-time worker. vee

The Gradug

The most important event in history of the Graduate School
of Concordia Seminary in the past triennium was the erection of
Graduate Hall in 1951 and its dedication on January 20, 1952.
The building is modern and ultraplain in its architecture but
practical in its design. It houses the office of the Graduate School, ;
which directs also the Mission Department, Correspondence and 4
Extension Divisions, and the Summer School. It provides also
a number of offices for instructors and the Speech Department,
secretaries’ rooms, a faculty lounge, four large classrooms, and
six seminar rooms. Dr. A. M. Rehwinkel is Director of the Graduate
School and its several departments.

Enrollment. — The enrollment in the Graduate School con-
tinued on a satisfactory level but declined slightly in the current
year, partially due to the limited number of courses offered during 4
the present school year. This, in turn, was due to the large enroll- °
ment in the undergraduate department and a corresponding increase |
in the teaching load of the faculty. It is gratifying, however, to §
note that some pastors continue to drive 100 to 150 miles each week |