# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S173
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 1738

n as the introduction of the new system is complete at
t is to be the subject of continuous review in close
with the Controller’s Office, so that the system may
fied in any way which may more adequately meet the
“the Fiscal Office and the requirements of modern school
The Board plans, also, to carry forward studies in
are susceptible to interpretation in educational terms
yy’ analytical benefits which can now accrue to Synod
ew system may not be lost. The Board for Higher

mmends, therefore, at this time, that your Board be
‘to direct any or all colleges and seminaries to conduct
activities (commissaries and dormitories) on a self-
z basis, if the accounting analyses which may be made
coming triennium indicate such a possibility. It should
stood that capital investments and capital improvements
remodeling would, in all cases, continue to be paid

Third Seminary

g the past triennium your Board has devoted much
the possibility that circumstances may force Synod to
terms of establishing a third seminary or of undertaking
cal adjustments during the course of the next triennium
‘to provide properly for the effective training of its min-
candidates. The extremely crowded conditions on the
eminary campus are well known. At this writing it is
whether it will be possible to reduce the present seminary
) three years after 1954 as contemplated in the Senior
lan adopted by the Milwaukee Convention.
struction of the dormitory, now in progress at St. Louis,
Wlittle more than to provide for the larger entering class
this fall. No significant alleviation of the present over-
m campus and off-campus living conditions may be
other areas (classrooms, dining service, student
dministrative offices, etc.), the accommodations will be
ate than now, since the total student body will increase.
more crowded condition is expected to exist in 1954.
schedule adopted by the Milwaukee Convention can be
and if the opening of the Senior College can be achieved
nber, 1955, the immediate pressure would be relieved,
ew students would enroll in the seminary for .two
years. There is grave doubt, however, under present
hees, that the Senior College can be ready by that date.
that situation materialize, no satisfactory solution of the