# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S42
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42 Proceedings of the 28th General or

asking the Synod to refrain from re-electing D. Pieper as General President.
How deeply we should regret it if the Doctor — so eminently gifted
precisely for teaching dogmatics — should become unable, through our
own overburdening of him, to do this work! May God be gracious to us
and let the dear man recover fully over the course of the summer, so that
in the fall he can resume his former work at the institution to its full
extent!

Although the state of health among the professors and students was
otherwise comparatively good, we nevertheless have to report the deaths
of two promising students.

We also have a bequest to report again. In the fall of 1908, $1023.00
fell to our seminary from the estate of the late Mr. Horstkötter of Zion
congregation in St. Louis.

Authorized to do so by the resolution of the 1908 Synod, we have put
the old building back into good repair. Among other things, it may be
mentioned that the whole interior of the building received a new coat of
paint, and the ground floor, to the great delight of our students, received
new washing and bathing facilities. Provision for the two professors'
residences resolved on by the Synod has been made in such a way that
one new residence was built, and, for the same total cost, the Lange
house and property next to the institution was purchased.

We further have to report that we have given our consent for Prof.
Mezger, whom the doctor advises to take a trip to Germany, to begin this
trip already before the close of the school year, just as we gave D.
Stöckhardt similar permission two years ago.

There now follow a few wishes and recommendations that we should
like to submit to the Synod:

1. We hold that the salaries of four of our professors should be raised.
And in connection with this we should like to recommend to the Synod
the following method for regulating all the salaries at all our educational
institutions: the salaries should be set from time to time by the respective
boards of control, upon review and with the consent of the General Board
of Control.

2. We recommend that the Synod grant the following request of the
faculty: "We ask for a person for the purpose of literary assistance, who,
under the faculty's supervision, will take over the editing of the
'Lutheraner,' as well as of the 'Kirchlich-Zeitgeschichtliches' [Church and
Contemporary History section] in 'Lehre und Wehre,' and render
assistance on the Quarterly."

3. We ask for an appropriation of $1600.00 for the following
improvements that have become necessary: a driveway in the courtyard
at about $1050.00, and a sidewalk from Jefferson Avenue to Ohio
Avenue at about $550.00.

4. In the block in which our institution stands, an alley runs south from
Miami Street, abutting the north boundary of our seminary grounds and
therefore having no outlet. For many