# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S135
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 135

ut completely surrendering to the functional, some
‘on of seminary work with the last two years of col-
‘tudied.”
tant churches and seminaries are quite helpless in
Ban, but our Synod has the priceless advantage of owning
“ting an entire system of academies and junior colleges
e preliminary stages of professional preparation for
theology. It is, therefore, in an ideal position to again
stant churches in ministerial training methods by
indicated “interpenetration of the seminary with the
of college” considered so desirable by seminaries
tiyvoughout our country.
d to the method of achieving the expanded college
yme interpenetration of seminary work into this col-
your Board continues to take the position that a new
ideal answer to Synod’s needs; however, it is not
conversion of an existing property as long as the
e two-year, separate senior college is maintained;
ny. necessary concomitant capacity adjustments to meet
ments in the ministerial- and teacher-training pro-
ossible; ‘and as long as the attendant circumstances
le. for the Senior College to reach the objectives
has adopted for it.
rd is glad to report also that its Advisory Council
eminary presidents), according to a resolution passed
y, 1953, plenary session, concurs in the view that
will best serve Synod’s present needs: “While the
¢ognizes that a new campus and plant might be the ideal
od’s needs, for practical reasons we favor beginning
as a separate two-year unit on one of the existing
uses.”
: The Problem Defined
“noted, once more, in this connection, that Synod’s
«properly defined as the problem of establishing
Wiege training preparatory to admission to a theological
vt s problem requires our Church to find a method
one additional year (net) into the center of an al-
‘ten-year program (plus one year of vicarage). Every
woust be given, therefore, first of all, to the fact that
has ten preparatory schools established in a fixed
one of its seminaries. No adjustments of any type
ken without automatically affecting both the exist-~
schools and the existing seminary. In addition,
ready possesses replacement values in excess of