# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S137
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 137

connection, your Board wishes to report further that
entirely different solution has had its careful attention
ést:study. In 1952 the administration at Concordia College,
e, Ind., conveyed the information that it had been ap-
‘an interested buyer. The local Board of Control and
-for Higher Education neither resisted nor encouraged
opment, but the boards mutually explored the possibility
roceeds from any sale. to Synod’s present reserve for
lege and thus financing construction of a new plant
pus, without any additional appropriation from Synod.
g no final offers and no final conclusions are available.
her developments occur, your Board will convey de-
és and recommendations to the Board of Directors
d.
he basis of all studies made and in recognition of Synod’s
ectives, as well as her unique existing
ints in the higher education of pastors a
tinues to

arrangements and
nd teachers, your

mend that the Senior College, as described in its report
previous convention and approved by it, be established at
liest possible date; and your Board

‘ommends, further, that Synod reaffirm its approval of the

ive organization and the control arrangements and pro-
‘as detailed in the Proceedings, 1950, page 226 ff.

» Admissions, and Transfer Trends

“the past triennium the Board has become aware of
elopments which influence enrollment, admissions, and
nds in such a way that they hamper the orderly opera-

roduction of ministerial graduates. The immediate
sults are a continually increasing pressure which se-
loads the available staff and training facilities at the
inary and an increase in the number of graduations
an early date, move the production of theological

ted-and approved by the Milwaukee Convention.

Board became aware of the sharply increased rate
from the preparatory schools without a correspond-
the total ministerial] enrollments, it undertook a de-
isis of this phenomenon. A study of the table and the