# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1922_S35
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1922. 85

three or four years it has deliberated often and at length about higher education. The institution at Greensboro in particular was the subject of the deliberations. The enrollment had once (1916–17) shrunk to 38. This had its reason partly in the fact that the requirements concerning the preparation of the newly entering pupils had, right at the start, been set far too low. Pupils who had completed the third grade of the elementary school were admitted. The consequence was that in our college we had to begin with the fourth grade of an ordinary school. That it hardly deserved the name college is easily imagined. Through all sorts of changes that were made, the institution has now been raised so far that it is a high school. The enrollment has risen to 165. These were taught last year by 7 white professors, 2 colored assistants in the Preparatory Department and 1 colored matron. To make room for the unprecedentedly large enrollment in the year 1920, bedrooms were provided in makeshift fashion in the attic (on the third floor) for the boys who live in the institution. That cost $1000, but is only a stopgap. As a result of this arrangement we were moreover put under the necessity of installing two fire-escapes, which cost a further $1000. The girls have been housed temporarily in the schoolhouse on the college grounds, which was transformed by means of a few boards and beaver board into a temporary dormitory (residence and sleeping house). It is a miserable stopgap. The new building, however, cannot be begun until two thirds ($20,000) of the building sum is on hand. — It now appears as if the wish of the mission board to sell the whole property and to move the institution to a more suitable place is going to be fulfilled. Further details about this can be reported orally. Director J. P. Smith is present at the Synodical Conference. He should be given opportunity to report on the institution. — Our thanks are due the American Luther League for the fine equipment of the laboratory.

Luther College at New Orleans, La. This institution too has experienced a great increase. The enrollment last school year was larger than ever before, namely 49. Now there is a lack of room. Several repairs have also become necessary. If the jubilee collection turns out well, Luther College too is to be considered. The institution has had until now two professors: Director Hugo Meibohm and Prof. Dr. Heinrich Nau. At the request of the faculty the Mission Commission on 22 June 1922 called Missionary John McDavid (colored) of Charlotte, N. C., as third professor. In connection with this, three resolutions may be reported here which the Commission, after long-continued, careful deliberation, adopted unanimously in a plenary session on 21 April 1922. 1. According to present prospects the Faculty of Immanuel Lutheran College at Greensboro is to re- [Printed in English.]