# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1887_S36
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36 Proceedings of the 20th General or

converted, which not only caused the household staff an extraordinary
amount of trouble but was likewise disruptive and hindering to the
students' study time in the rooms concerned, and, with the growing
number of students, is also no longer sufficient. — The kitchen, which
is likewise located in the "basement," has itself become too small even
for the most essential cooking equipment and for the increased
domestic staff.

"c) Furthermore, the steward's residence is located right among the
students, and it is, since the family must keep five maids, so cramped
that a bed must stand in every room. The manservant and the baker
have been given a narrow closet as a sleeping chamber, partitioned off
with boards in a storage shed; otherwise they must stay in the kitchen.

"d) In addition to this, the space that the steward, with his family
and the maids, occupies in the seminary must necessarily be used for
the students. Until now we still had, on the seminary grounds, a small
frame house, the former old orphanage, which the Synod purchased
together with a piece of land from the North Illinois Orphanage
Society. This house, however, has now become so old that any further
repairs would simply be a waste of money. The house has hitherto
been used for five pianos for the students' practice. These pianos,
however, must now be removed from the house if they are not to
become completely unusable. Where to put them? The students'
living rooms and dormitories are already sufficiently occupied as it is;
indeed, as the number of students grows, the existing rooms must be
occupied beyond capacity. Only by vacating the steward's residence
will room be made for the pianos.

"e) Finally, it should also be mentioned that we have only a single
small attic room for the sick at the seminary, in which, in the direst
need, three beds can be fitted, and that staying in it is downright
unbearable for the sick. This sickroom has only half-sized windows; in
short, it is wholly unsuited for receiving the sick. Yet it has so far
been the only room that removed the sick, if not entirely, at least
somewhat, from the constant musical noise. And even so, it can
happen that instruction and practice in music must be partly
suspended for days at a time, which is no small loss for the students.
But whenever more cases of illness occurred, students' living rooms
had to be cleared out, and the hardships for sick and healthy alike
became still greater.

"These many great hardships ought at last to be remedied. The
supervisory board has, in these past three years, given much thought
to the matter and worked out various plans for how, without
excessive cost, adequate household spaces, a steward's residence, and
sickrooms might be provided. All three spaces should absolutely be so
connected to one another that no one is forced to expose himself first
to the sharp storms of the prairie and the bitter cold merely to get
from one of these places to another.