# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1013
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ommittee 1 recommended, and Synod resolved:

WwW 5 Resolution 17
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at almost all of Synod’s colleges and seminaries be 1 introduced

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desirable; therefore be it “pretation in educational terms” seems

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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 237

olved, That we accept the recommendations of Synod’s
‘for Higher Education that “Your Board be authorized to
-any or all colleges and seminaries to conduct auxiliary
es (commissaries and dormitories) on a self-supporting
if the accounting analyses which may be made during the
«xg triennium indicate such a possibility. It should be under-
“4 that capital investments and capital improvements or major
all cases, continue to be paid by Synod.”

great Third Seminary
»‘dopyuring the past triennium your Board has devoted much
dhought to the possibility that circumstances may force Synod to
think in terms of establishing a third seminary or of undertaking
other radical adjustments during the course of the next triennium
in order to provide properly for the effective training of its min-
isterial candidates. The extremely crowded conditions on the
St Louis Seminary campus are well known. At this writing it is
not clear whether it will be possible to reduce the present seminary
to three years after 1954 as contemplated in the Senior
College plan adopted by the Milwaukee Convention.

The construction of the dormitory, now in progress at St. Louis,
will do little more than to provide for the larger entering class
expected this fall. No significant alleviation of the present over-
crowding in campus and off-campus living conditions may be
expected. In other areas (classrooms, dining service, student
activities, administrative offices, etc.), the accommodations will be
less adequate than now, since the total student body will increase.
An even more crowded condition is expected to exist in 1954.

If the schedule adopted by the Milwaukee Convention can be
followed, and if the opening of the Senior College can be achieved
in September, 1955, the immediate pressure would be relieved,
since no new students would enroll in the seminary for two
successive years. There is grave doubt, however, under present
circumstances, that the Senior College can be ready by that date.
Should that situation materialize, no satisfactory solution of the
problems created presents itself at this time since, in the absence
of effective controls, the seminary would be faced with the task
of accommodating and teaching a projected enrollment approach-
ing 1,000 students within four years, according.to present indi- .
cations.

In any event your Board is convinced that such large-scale .
operations at the seminary level make it unnecessarily difficult,
if not impossible, to achieve the objectives of Synod’s ministerial
training program. In this connection, consideration has been given
to the possibility of teaching the entire freshman ‘seminary class
on some other synodical campus. The Board has also tentatively
explored the possibility of opening a small (50 to 100 students)