# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1899_S54
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54 Proceedings of the 24th General, or

Resolved, to approve the board at Milwaukee having "raised the salary
of Profs. Huth and Ross by $100.00 per annum on account of their large
families."

Resolved, that heartfelt thanks be given to Mr. John Pritzlaff, who
"made a gift to the Synod of the lot on which the gymnasium [athletic
hall] is built."

Concordia Pro-Gymnasium at St. Paul, Minn.

"Once again three years of diligent labor and real progress, blessed by
the Lord, lie behind us, concerning which we hereby render the required
report to the Reverend General Synod.

"As we expected, our pro-gymnasium and pro-seminary has continued to
develop in a quite normal way during the past triennium: in 1896, 30
students entered the institution; in 1897, 26; and in 1898, 36 — so that
the institution was attended by 65 students in 1896, 61 in 1897, and 72 in
1898. In all, since the school's founding six years ago, 181 students have
attended the institution. Of these, 141 came from the state of Minnesota,
13 from Iowa, 11 from North Dakota, 8 from South Dakota, 4 from Wisconsin,
2 from Illinois, and 1 from Nebraska.

"The students who have advanced from here to higher educational
institutions have shown that they possessed the necessary maturity and
required knowledge for the classes to which they were assigned, for we
heard only favorable judgments of their qualifications from Milwaukee and
Addison. Three of our earliest pro-seminarians are already serving in the
teaching office.

"Since Prof. Landeck returned to the preaching office, Pastor E. L.
Arndt was elected and called as third professor of our institution; he
accepted the call and was installed in his office on March 2, 1897. All
three professors have, to the best of our knowledge, worked with
diligence, faithfulness, and conscientiousness, of which we satisfied
ourselves well by visiting each one's classes. The number of hours falling
to each of the gentlemen is distributed as follows: Director Bünger gives
29, Prof. Jürgensen 31, Prof. Arndt 32 hours per week. In addition we
still had to call on the help of Pastor v. Niebelschütz for some hours in
history, calligraphy, drawing, and gymnastics, and likewise on Mr. Berg's
help for violin instruction.

"The moral condition of the institution has been satisfactory. Only one
serious disciplinary case occurred, and this concerned only one mangy
member of the flock [*ein räudiges Glied der Heerde*], who had to be
expelled. Although various other lapses, bad habits, faults, and failings
occurred, admonition from God's Word, diligently applied by the director,
generally sufficed to effectively counter the old Adam. In this...

[PRINTED-ERROR: the stated total of "181 pupils" does not agree with the breakdown — 141 + 13 + 11 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 180. Reproduced as printed.]