LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1932, Page 54

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54 Proceedings of Thirty-Fifth Regular Convention,

fact that, while in its own very firm opinion the 8reat need
institution of the kind of our college, both as a backsta
congregations and as an outpost for Synod’s missionary
in this more and more rapidly developing southeastern ter
by no means decreased, but rather, and especially lately,
decidedly increased, nevertheless a change with respect to
use of the college has taken place. The junior college, P
Secunda, by reason of the inability, on account of insuffici
ment, to secure full accreditation from the State, has lost its local
patronage on the part of those students who do not have the Ministry
in view. The high-school department, the four lower classes, although

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from our limited local resources, of course, promises no large enrol-
ment, unless the entire southeastern territory, including the States
south of a line drawn west from Virginia to the Mississippi, could
be enlisted in the support of the institution.

With reference to the suggestion of your Survey Committee to
curtail the courses given at this institution by two years, your Board

authorized by Synod in 1911, to fix the status of the local institution,
After two years’ trial the plan was rejected. It was found to be
entirely detrimental to the interests and the development of the in-
stitution as well as of the students. It will also now be practically
impossible to attract students for the ministry from a distance to
a college that offers only a partial preparatory course. As to the
Survey Committee's recommendation to close the institution, your
Board begs to submit that such action would of course leave the
Synod without that nucleus in the southeastern territory, which until
now has furnished the background for Synod’s work in the Southeast
and has been largely responsible for its character. We feel confident
that it would not be to Synod’s interest to take such drastic action
with reference to this institution, which has now survived fifty years
of continual trial and for the past two trienniums has been looking
forward hopefully to a better equipment for the purpose of an in-
creased and better service to Synod and its great possibilities under
God’s blessing in the Southeast.

Your Board, however, is not at all unmindful of Synod’s financial
problems at this particular time nor of the financial conditions of our