# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S216
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216 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

at no risk to the outcomes. Libraries with book holdings and study
seating for 150 students cannot well serve the needs of 240 students
without change or adjustment. Resident-hall study rooms and
bedrooms suitable for two students cannot with equal effectiveness
house three, or even four. Physical education plants originally
usable for male students cannot without some adjustment be made
to serve the needs of a coeducational student body. On the other
hand, indispensability of spiritual training through the intensive
and persistent use of the means of grace indicates also that pro-
visions for collective worship in a college chapel for a student
body of 400 are not adequate if normal seating allows for only
half that number.
a Balanced campus development is limited also by the con-
tinuing necessity to safeguard the existing capital investment in |
plant. When a building or buildings are overused, the necessity
for frequent major repairs is increased and expensively accelerated.
Under overcrowded circumstances, adequate provision for the
health, welfare, and safety of the students is made more difficult.
The problem of renovation and even of modernization of obsolescent
buildings is made more urgent.

Balanced campus development to optimum student capacity | >
in the case of every one of Synod’s institutions calls for the con- i
tinuing study of space utilization on these campuses. It is clear to
your Board that as the enrollment in the synodical institutions

in recent years has risen to successively new record heights, insti- i

i: tutions have generally done a praiseworthy job of improving the |
level and degree of space utilization. There are a few individual |
instances where current studies indicate that modifications and
adjustments can lead to a higher degree of such use. In close
co-operation with the Boards of Control and administrators of the
institutions, your Board proposes in the next period of years to
develop and carry on an extensive space-utilization study with
a view to the meeting in practice of the possibilities of maximum
efficiency in plant. use and of optimum effectiveness in training.

In the previous triennium, two Districts of Synod have made
and resolved on offers of assistance to the Board for Higher Edu-
cation in the solicitation of capital investment funds necessary to
establish additional residence-hall facilities on the campuses of
synodical institutions in the geographical territory of the respective
Districts. The Minnesota District voted to designate its Centennial
Thankoffering as an offering of gratitude to the Lord of the Church
for having provided to the District countless pastors and teachers
in its first century of growth and expansion and for that purpose
established a District goal of $300,000 to be turned over to Synod

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