# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S44
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44 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

at our extension centers was discontinued in 1954. As a result
the center at Milwaukee was temporarily discontinued. An exten-
sion center has been established at Portland, Oreg., under the
direction of Dr. Thomas Coates.
C. Pastors’ Institutes

In view of the workshops conducted on our campus no pastors’
institutes were conducted during the past three years.

The Student Body

Enrollment figures for the triennium are as follows:

Regular session 1953—54 195455 1955—66

In Residence 759 763 762
Vicars __.__ —_..__ 163 178 180
Summer session 0 39 97 93
Total — 961 1,038 1,035
Subtracting for duplications __ 17 42 35
Net total 0 944 996 1,000

Diplomas and degrees awarded:

Theological

Diploma B.A. B.D. 8.T.M. Th.D. D.D.*
1952—53 _..._._ 103 151 24 5 3 5
1953—54 ___.._ 110 181 32 10 _ 6
1954—55 __ 143 180 42 8 —_ 5
* Honorary

While it was possible during the last three years to move
ahead in providing better health service and meal service and
to make other improvements in the administration of sfudent
affairs, the problems caused by the inadequate housing of almost
200 students (next year the number will probably be well over
200) and the lack of proper worship facilities remain. We believe
that they can be solved only by the erection of another dormitory
and a chapel.

Over the last decade it has become advisable to develop a
policy permitting some students to marry before graduation. Such
cases are still regarded as exceptional. As a rule this privilege is
extended only to students who are confronting their last year ‘of
studies and in whose case the step seems fully justified from the
academic, economic, social, and every other angle. We believe
that our policy is in keeping with the wishes of the majority of
the members of our Synod and that circumstances will necessitate
our maintaining it. In other words, we shall in the foreseeable
future probably always have from 60 to 80 married students on the
undergraduate level. In recent years. we. have also always had
8 to 10 married graduate students who require housing. On that
account the time has come for Synod to confront the question of
building apartments for married students. An inquiry has revealed
that a big majority of the larger Protestant seminaries in our
country is now following this pattern.

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