# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S54
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54 Proceedings of the 28th General or

meningitis, which broke out as an epidemic in and around Seward, the
institution had to be closed by order of the city health authority and the
students sent home, after two had already been stricken with the
disease, whom God, after a short illness, called out of this world by a
death that we may confidently hope was a blessed one. These were the
two students Andreas Meyer and Viktor Leimer. After three weeks of
quarantine the students were able to return to the institution.

Of our dear professors, who are truly overburdened with work, we can
testify that they have attended to their office with all cheerfulness,
faithfulness, and self-denial, and we certainly have high cause to thank
God that He has kept them in good health.

There are currently 121 students at the institution. During the past
triennium 52 graduates were sent out into the teaching office. — As
regards the students' moral conduct, although there were no serious
excesses, various failings of the old Adam did come to light. To God's
honor, however, we can also testify that a spirit prevails among the
students that submits itself to the discipline of God's Word.

The practice school, attended by 79 children and under the direction of
Professors H. Fehner and J. Link, is proving itself more and more a
beneficial institution for our seminarists; at the same time it also meets
every requirement that may be made of a well-ordered parish school.

So much by way of review. Now a few requests concerning our
institution's needs that we should like to lay before the Reverend
Synod.

1. May the Reverend Synod at this meeting fulfill our request,
already made three years ago, namely to raise our professors' salaries
in keeping with present conditions. Your board of control unfortunately
found itself compelled last year to approach the General Treasurer for
provisional assistance.

2. May the Reverend Synod appropriate the sum of $1650.00 for
installing steam heating in the old dormitory building. What drives us to
make this request is the constant fire danger to which students and
property are exposed by the stove heating. The sum just given will,
according to the testimony of experts, cover all the costs.

3. Our third request concerns the erection of a music building of our
own. That we venture to bring this request before the Reverend Synod
has a twofold reason: first, the great necessity of such a building, which
surely no one will dispute once he hears, a. that the musical instruments
stand in a dank, damp basement; what that means for a piano, everyone
who has had one