# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S843
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Financial Matters 848

neordia Teachers’ College, to the Nebraska Corporation, known
sncordia Teachers’ College of Seward, Nebraska.

5. The last convention granted the college at Milwaukee
for a new building, an addition to the Administration
wilding, in which the library was to be housed, plus $6,000 for
uipment. The Board of Control repeatedly asked that the
yecessary funds be made available for this purpose. The Board of
Directors was unable to grant this request because of the lack of
ey. However, the report of the Board of Control will show
provisional arrangements have been made to house the
ary in a better place than the dark basement, and the prospects
‘at’ present are that the necessary funds for the new building will
raised within the territory assigned to the college, with some
lp from the Building Fund of Synod.

6. At Bronxville as well as at Oakland the experiment in
‘general higher education and coeducation has been made. It is for
“others to report on the success of this undertaking. But it should
be mentioned in our report that we tried to carry out Synod’s
solution that this experiment be made “without additional net
~.. gost to Synod.” In the case of the Bronxville institute it became
necessary to permit the Board of Control to use some of the
tuition-money from non-ministerial students in the interest of
this venture. ;

7. All matters pertaining to the South American institutions
at Porto Alegre, Brazil, and Crespo, Argentina, had been referred
to the Board of Directors by the last convention. Fortunately
we could have a personal conference with Dr. Ji ahn, then president
‘of the seminary and college at Porto Alegre, and with Professor
Rehfeldt, of the same school, in our first meeting of the triennium.
Recently we could discuss the situation at Crespo with the presi-
.. dent of the institution, Prof. A. Lehenbauer. The college at Crespo
has been taken over by Synod. Certain requests regarding this
4 school will come before the convention through the local board,
>" such as the addition of a seminary course at Crespo, which would
. involve the erection of a new building and the calling of two
". more professors. Our Committee on Colleges will be ready to
represent our Board in these matters when they are considered
by Committee No.1. Governmental restrictions in Brazil and
Argentina regarding the use of the vernacular and the teaching
of certain courses had to be given much attention and caused
‘much correspondence. The reports of the local boards will, no
doubt, give a clear picture of the situation. The question of
coeducation at our South American institutions was also referred
to our Board. We find that there are no coeducational colleges