The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-21
new COLLEGE HERE
German Lutherans to Open a
UNCONVENTIONAL School.
Institution Will Be Financed by
Stock Company.
SYNOD MAY CONSIDER.
Meeting of Congregation Here
to Help Movement.
AffiliatiOn in Student Athletics
Is Probable.

Regarding Topeka as the logical edu-
cational center of the state. the Ger
man Lutheran congregations of Kan
sas will found here a UNCONVENTIONAL
college to be opened for students in
September, 1911.
An organization of 10 men prominent
in the church affairs now are working
on the plans and financial basis of the
new college with Rev. Peter D. Mueller,
pastor of the ST. Johns German Evan
eelical church at the head One of their
first concerns is the selection of suit
able site for the construction of the
first building which Will be undertaken
in the near future.
This new institution which is destin-
ed to center Lutheran students in To-
peka viii not be under church endow-
ment and under the rulings of the
synod, but will be financed by stock
company including members of the 100
congregations throughout the state.
The plan apparently is original in the
German Lutheran church congregations,
three other such colleges now being in
operation. These are the Walther COL
lege at ST. Louis, the Lutheran insti-
tute at Chicago, and the Lutheran
academy at Milwaukee.
Colleges directly under the synod con-
troll and under church endowment are
located at st. Paul, Chicago, New York.
Fort Wayne, Ind, Concordia, Mo-, and
the st. Johns college at Winfield, Kan.
Normal schools are situated at Madi-
son, ILL.,, and at Seward. Neb. Semi
naries of the church are at ST. Louis
and at Springfield.
There Is a possibility that the col
leglate department and the musical
conservatory of the st. Johns college
at Winfield will be transferred to the
Topeka institution after an investiga-
tion by the synod of the capital city's
facilities. This would leave the St.
Johns college purely a seminary
Instruction in the Topeka school in
the beginning probably will be con-
fined to three departments, academic.
music and commercial. No announce
ment regarding the size or personnel
of the faculty is available as yet.
The amount of stock to be issued
among the interested members of the
church in Kansas can not be deter
mined until complete canvass of the
state has been made. 1t is intended,
however, to be drawn largely from the
north part of the state. Con-
gregations at Mcfarland and Alma
have been visited and are enthusiastic.
Leavenworth, Kansas City and other
points in the corner of the state are to
be visited Immediately.
Impetus is expected to be given the
movement in the synod convention for
the district of Kansas, which includes
Colorado and Oklahoma, when it
convenes in Topeka in October of the
present year.
Contrary to the policy of Swedish
Lutheran synods, the German Luther
an colleges of this kind are not pro-
hibiting student athletics, and it may
be the new institution will become a
member of the Topeka athletic confer
ence and place strong athletic teams in
the field.
Local men who are included in the
organization of nineteen who are push
ing the school are, Rev. P. d. Muel-
Ter, Professor w. H. Steinkamp, w.
Yockey, w. F. Weber and E. Adam,
secretary of the organization.