# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1899_S57
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Ninth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1899. 57

Resolved, that the sum of $1500.00 be made available to the
Oversight Board at St. Paul for the restoration of the burned portion of
the main building.

The Board further reported orally that it — the Oversight Board at
St. Paul, Minn. — found itself obliged, for the preservation of the
building's lower part, which was still undamaged, to fit the latter with a
new roof without further delay. The Board now put the request to the
Synod that the Synod approve this undertaking of theirs.

Resolved, that the Synod approves the Oversight Board at St. Paul's
having taken immediate steps to carry out, without delay, the reroofing
of the burned portion of the main building.

Resolved, that the petition of a Synodical congregation in the State
of South Dakota, to the effect that the Synod establish a further class,
namely the Tertia, at the college in St. Paul, Minn., be laid on the table.

Resolved, that the Oversight Board's request to be allowed to apply
the tuition money of students who devote themselves neither to the
preaching office nor to the teaching office toward their further training
be declined.

St. Paul's Progymnasium at Concordia, Mo.

"To the Reverend Delegate Synod the Oversight Board at Concordia,
Mo. — which in 1896 was proposed by the Western and Kansas District
of the Synod and accepted by the same — respectfully submits the
following report on the three years since elapsed.

"In the course of these three years 66 students have withdrawn and
51 new students have entered. The number of students, which had
considerably decreased through the Synod's ordered abolition of the
Tertia in 1896, and through the considerably reduced admissions of
several years — chiefly owing to the oppressive economic conditions
especially felt in the West of our country, and no doubt also owing to
the talk of overproduction in our pastoral seminaries — had fallen so
low that at the beginning of the 1897–1898 school year it stood at only
33, has through decreased withdrawal and increased admission of
students in the past fall risen again to 41. Although the number of
students is thus not yet as large as it once was, it is nevertheless larger
this year than last, not smaller, and a turn for the better has thus set
in which, we hope, will continue, so that the number of students, even
if not as high as formerly with four classes (84 in the first year), may
yet present itself as quite respectable.