# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S820
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 123

; be used by students and faculty members alike whenever needed.
- Our library is not large enough for this. A number of books are
" stored away in the vault, others in the roof chamber, and still
=. others in a basement room of the dormitory. Books which can be
~ obtained only with difficulty are practically useless.
5. At a school like ours future pastors, teachers, and lay
leaders ought to have opportunities for practice on pianos and other
musical instruments. Yet this advantage can be granted to only
a small number because we have not room for such instruments.
This year only six students are able to find sufficient opportunity
to practice on our two college pianos for their music lessons.
In a recent survey no fewer than fifty-six students indicated that
they would like to take lessons if pianos for regular practice
;. were available. . ;
6. For some years the matter of providing suitable living
quarters for our caretaker has been a very real problem. Several
; . years ago we were compelled to vacate a classroom in order that
, this might serve as a living room for the caretaker and his wife.
¢. With a larger enrollment, this room was needed for teaching
=. purposes. There is only one hospital room (large enough for
~ a single bed) available now, in which our present caretaker lives,
as long as it is not needed for a patient. To employ a married
man for this position is out of the question because there is no
» accommodation for him.

7. Most of the instructors have duties besides their classwork.
At present there is no suitable space for the work of the registrar,
the librarian, and especially the student counselors.

8. In order to enhance our devotional life, the proper worship-
ful atmosphere ought to obtain in the chapel services. However,
the students do not find much of such atmosphere in our present
chapel, which is used for classroom purposes, choir rehearsals,
orchestra practice, dramatic presentations, comedy, ete.

9. We are in need of storage room for spare tables, benches,
stage equipment, trunks, traveling bags, etc. Repeatedly we have
been able to find no other space than the roof chamber. To store
objects up there requires either to climb a ladder through a trap
door or to hoist things up from the outside with a pulley.

10. Although our co-eds live in homes near the college, they
spend the greater part of the day at the college. We are crowding
33 of them into a room 20x16.

11. Our present dormitory was designed to accommodate
68 boys, with four or five in each room. By overcrowding we can
add one more. That is what we are doing this year. Instead of 68,
80 are living in the suites. This overcrowding causes much dis-