# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S74
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74 Proceedings of the 28th General or

1. that the appointment of a sixth full-time teacher is desirable, and
may indeed become necessary. Our professors now teach on average 35
hours a week, P. Werling 15. With the present teaching staff we can
manage for the time being, as long as the upper classes remain small;
but since the number of students is expected to grow in the coming
years, the synod should now authorize the board of oversight to hire
a sixth full-time teacher as soon as necessary;

2. that the institution should receive the usual appropriations for
the library and the natural-history cabinet.

3. Finally, we feel compelled to inform the synod that, in our
conviction, an addition to the building is becoming an absolute
necessity. The present building (102×57×42 feet; material: stone)
contains, besides the assembly hall, 5 classrooms, 10 living rooms, 7
bedrooms, a library room, 2 rooms for the steward, etc. It offers
space for at most 60 students. This building is barely able to hold
the current number of students. 53 students live in the building. 42
of these intend to prepare for the preaching office. Seven students —
admittedly ones not preparing for service in the Church — already had
to be lodged outside the institution and take only their meals at the
college. Should the institution again be so numerously attended next
September by students wishing to devote themselves to the preaching
office as it was last September (22), the institution would be
crowded to capacity by these students alone, quite apart from any
students who might enroll merely to further their education. Should
this not happen next September, what will the situation regarding
space be like in two or three years? We must also recall here that we
lack classrooms, and that some of the existing ones are partly too
small, partly too impractical. We also have no sickroom. We therefore
ask the Reverend Synod to authorize an addition or a new building and
to allow $15,000.00 for this purpose. Naturally this sum is not
sufficient for a suitably built structure. We have therefore already
collected pledges for this purpose in the congregations of the Kansas
District and from individual friends of the college, with a
satisfactory result. We intend to continue doing so until we have
collected the necessary remainder for a suitable building.

Closing Word.

The institution began its 17th school year in September 1910. Since
the institution's founding, 35 graduates have been sent on to St.
Louis. Two more will follow this year. This institution is admittedly
the smallest of the synod's 10 institutions. But did not even our
largest schools have small beginnings? Just as they have since grown,
so we believe that this institution too