# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S172
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172 Proceedings of the 26th General or

our children learn, alongside all sorts of useful things, the one thing that is needful and that surpasses all human knowledge.

"Below we give a brief overview of the items exhibited, as they are listed in the catalogue produced by our committee. This catalogue was distributed free to visitors.

"In all, 265 schools with 460 teachers were represented through pupils' work; among them were 22 schools in which pastors teach. 142 of these schools are mixed [ungraded], 123 are graded schools.

"In more than 800 tastefully bound volumes were pupils' papers with exact indication of the pupil's name and age, and of the grade to which they belonged, in the following subjects: English, 23,366 papers; United States history, 2,929; geography, 6,788; arithmetic, 13,819; religion, 7,022; German, 14,143; drawing, 3,086; and penmanship, 6,542; besides these, 374 papers in hygiene, natural history and botany, shorthand, and algebra.

"Almost every school had sent in two photographs, one of which was bound in with that school's work, the other displayed on the wall.

"Of the Synod's higher institutions of learning, photographs were sent in by the seminaries at St. Louis, Springfield, and Addison, the Gymnasia [college-preparatory schools] at Fort Wayne and Milwaukee, and the pro-gymnasia at St. Paul and Hawthorne.

"The Teachers' Seminary at Addison had, besides this, exhibited work in the subjects taught there.

"Walther College in St. Louis, too, was represented by pupils' work and photographs.

"Further, all the schoolbooks and teaching materials produced at the Concordia Publishing House were laid out on display, and formed a noteworthy — and in fact much noticed — part of our exhibit.

"The cost of the exhibit came to $2,252.11, of which sum nearly $1,900.00 went to building and fitting out the exhibit and to paying the attendant and janitor.*)

"In closing, our committee has the joyful duty to report to the Reverend Synod that our school exhibit, with the exception of a few volumes, is now housed at Addison, where it

*) "The accounting has been examined by a committee appointed by the Right Reverend General President, and is in the hands of the General Treasurer."