# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S38
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

38 Seminaries and Colleges. — Individual Institutions

The Seminary is still without a gymnasium. The Alumni
Association, which has taken over this project, has been working
faithfully in endeavoring to secure funds, not supplied by Synod,
to build the gymnasium. In due time the Board of Control will
ask the Board of Directors of Synod to designate the place on the
grounds where the gymnasium can be built.

In order to comply with the spirit of Synod’s resolution to
organize a Department of Missions at Concordia Seminary, the
Practical Department in connection with representatives of mis-
sion boards has been endeavoring to arrive at a workable plan
for more general and intelligent participation in missionary and
congregational activities on the part of the students and a closer
supervision on the part of the faculty. The course on Pastoral
Theology has been extended to five hours per week in order to
give more attention to missions. In the new course of studies pro-
vision has been made in the third year for an additional two-hour
course which gives special attention to Synod, stewardship, and
young people’s work. A two-hour elective on missions has been
offered in the past year. Besides these curriculum periods the
Students’ Missionary Society offers all students opportunity for
actual missionary and institutional work, Special lectures also are
arranged on home missions, institutional missions, and young peo-
ple’s work. Attendance is made obligatory for members of the
third year and the senior classes.

Requests

1. Owing to the fact that a number of other committees are
reporting on the candidate question, on the curriculum for higher
education, etc., no request is being made for a new dormitory.
However, if over-crowded conditions continue, then some method
of control must be found in limiting the number of students or
action must be taken at this convention to permit an expansion
of the building program at the Seminary.

2. Three of the professors are living in rent. The Board of
Control wishes to call attention to this fact and awaits instructions
from Synod whether or not three residences should be built during
the coming triennium.

Beseeching the Lord to continue His richest blessing upon
our Seminary during its second century of existence, we remain,

THe Boarp or Controt or Concorpia SEMINARY
ALFRED DOERFFLER, Secretary

Report of Committee 1
Committee No.1 recommends the following:

1. That the Board of Control and the Board of Directors be °

authorized to make temporary provisions for student housing at
the St. Louis Seminary if conditions require.