# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S24
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24 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

the curriculum of the college, departmental and course objectives,
the needs of the field, and of educational policy in the broadest
sense, has occupied one hour of each regular meeting. Many faculty
members have been able to attend learned society meetings in
their teaching and administrative fields, and quite a number have
served as essayists, panel members, discussants, or recorders on 4
the programs of national or State conventions. They have also
continued to serve regularly at teachers’ and pastors’ conferences
and on a number of synodical committees, and have contributed
to synodical and secular educational periodicals. Several faculty
men have published books during the triennium. The Board here-
with wishes to commend the administrators and faculty members
for their alertness to the needs of the school, their interest in the 4
welfare of Synod, and their constant restudy of our program in the 4
light of the ever-increasing requirements of the Church and the *
changing policies in American education.

The Student Body

With our dormitories filled to crowded capacity, the enrollment 3
has been as follows on October 15 of each year: :

Enrollment Men Women Total*
1950—1951 __. an — 319 240 559
1951—1952 337 220 557
1952—1953 ———_____________ 330 230 560

* In addition, an average of nearly 100 undergraduates serve in the field as 3
supply teachers each year. ough technically they are students, we have not -
ineluded them in the above totals. 4

Some students were graduated each quarter; others took emer- q
gency teaching positions; a few discontinued. New applicants took %
their places to make up approximately the same totals.

During the triennium we have continued our rigid policy of 4
admitting only men and women who have solemnly declared their 3
intention of devoting their professional lives to the service of th E
Church. Only those are permitted to remain on the campus whos
attitude, interest, character, and academic record give good evi-4
dence that they are on the way toward achieving this goal. Those:
who do not measure up to the standards are, with all possible kind
ness and consideration for their welfare, guided into other fields
of endeavor. This is at best a time-consuming, difficult task an
often a thankless one, but we feel that in fairness to the studen
themselves, to Synod, and to the many prospective students wh
would like to enter our teaching profession, we cannot avoid i

We are happy to report that we are still receiving rather larg
numbers of students with advanced standing from other colleg
and universities. Because of the flexibility of our curriculum an
the willingness of our administrative officers and other faculty