# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1887_S33
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Fifth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1887. 33

education for the ministry, have been sent to Springfield yet find
themselves outside the institution, teaching on their own already. This
extensive practice of sending help runs counter to their own repeatedly
expressed and well-founded conviction that help by students of our
institutions ought to be given only in very urgent cases of need, and
the Synod is of the opinion that, if the incoming requests were
carefully screened and only the genuinely urgent cases considered, the
number of those absent could be kept to a minimum."

Regarding the question of whether new rooms ought to be provided for
the far larger number of students at the institution at Springfield, the
Synod resolved to let the matter rest until Dr. Dümling submits a plan
showing the most suitable way of remedying any shortage of space.

Regarding the beginning of the school year at the institution, see the
resolution found on p. 41 of this report.

Teachers' Seminary at Addison, Ill.

"To the Reverend General Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States,
the supervisory board has the following report to render concerning
the Teachers' Seminary at Addison, Ill., for the triennium from May
1884 to date, 1887:

"I. The resolutions adopted by the fourth delegate synod in 1884 at
St. Louis have been carried out:

"1. After Mr. Teacher J. L. Backhaus of Chicago was duly elected the
seventh professor at the Teachers' Seminary by an absolute majority
vote of the electoral college and called by the supervisory board, he
was solemnly installed in his office on 28 August, on the occasion of
the opening of the new school year, by Pastor J. Große.

"2. The buildings resolved on by the Synod have been completed. Two
professors' residences have been built for the sum of $4522.31. The
new seminary building is 65 feet wide, 84 feet deep, and 40 feet, or 2¾
stories, high. It contains a large assembly hall [Aula] 40 by 60 feet,
four large lecture halls, four dormitories, and four smaller rooms for
the library, natural-history specimens, and the like, as well as several
rooms for the students' trunks and clothing, and costs the sum of
$22,213.27. The total for both buildings is accordingly $26,735.58. The
Synod had, to be sure, appropriated only $26,000.00; but we
confidently hope that the Reverend Synod will not disapprove of the
overexpenditure of $735.58, and that for the following reasons: first,
the supervisory board did not dare proceed with the building until