# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S174
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174 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

problems created presents itself at this time since, in the abseng
of effective controls, the seminary would be faced with the

of accommodating and teaching a projected enrollment approa oF
ing 1,000 students within four years, according to present in
cations. :
In any event your Board is convinced that such large-s
operations at the seminary level make it unnecessarily difficw!
if not impossible, to achieve the objectives of Synod’s ministeri
training program. In this connection, consideration has been give
to the possibility of teaching the entire freshman seminary cli
on some other synodical campus. The Board has also tentati
explored the possibility of opening a small (50 to 100 studeng
seminary. on the West Coast, or in Canada, or in some oth
section of the country.

It may well be that these expected overcrowded conditions
the St.Louis Seminary are the Lord’s way of forcing Synod!
follow the natural population thrust and the westward expansi
of our own Church with seminary facilities for the training
pastors there or in Canada, even as He has already led he
establish preparatory facilities in these areas years in advan
an urgent demand for their use. In any event, the rapidity:
developments in our world, and, consequently, in our Ch
work in the Kingdom, plus the unpredictable nature of deve!
ments in Synod’s educational operations indicate the critical ne
sity for flexible arrangements which will enable Synod’s bo
to plan and to act as circumstances may dictate.

If Synod can assume that the Senior College will be in ope
tion by 1955, it appears that, with properly controlled graduati
from the preparatory schools and the Senior College, the St. L
facilities may continue to serve Synod for another decade}
indicated in this Board’s report to the Milwaukee Conventiga
however, since the schedule indicated above may well pr@&
impossible if the delays inherent in some of the proposals be!
this convention should. materialize, and since emergency devel
ments may dictate that some other provisions be made witt
delay prior to the next convention of Synod, your Board

Recommends that Synod convey to its Board for Higher ve
cation the authority to direct, in consultation with the Boa we
Directors, whatever adjustments may be required in this :
including the opening of a small seminary or the transfer
entire seminary class to some other existing campus; and the }

Recommends, further, that any action which may b
necessary be undertaken only with the prior approval. of}
Praesidium of Synod, the Board of Directors, and the Colleg
District Presidents; and the Board