# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S216
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here relief is provided through the vice-presidents — rather than for
the school. To be sure, the other teachers kept the students amply
occupied and made up to some degree for the gap in the lectures on
dogmatics; still it must be regarded as a great loss that the students
had to do without these lectures themselves. The board of control
therefore takes the liberty, together with the faculty, of asking the
Synod to refrain from re-electing Dr. Pieper as General Präses
[president]. How deeply we would have to regret it if the doctor, so
eminently gifted precisely for teaching dogmatics, should become
unable for this work through our own overburdening of him! May
God be gracious to us and let the dear man recover fully in the
course of the summer, so that in the fall he can again take up his
former work at the school in full measure.

Although in other respects the state of health among professors
and students was relatively good, we do nonetheless 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 the Zion congregation in St. Louis.

Authorized by the Synod's resolution of 1908, we have put the old
building back into good condition. Among other things it may be
mentioned that the whole interior of the house received a fresh coat
of paint and that the ground floor, to our students' great delight,
received a new wash and bath facility. Provision has been made for
the two professors' residences resolved on by the Synod in such a
way that a new residence was built, and for the same amount the
Lange house adjoining the school, together with its lot, was
purchased.

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

There now follow a few wishes and recommendations which we
would 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 would like to recommend to
the Synod the following manner of settling all the salaries at all
our schools: the salaries shall be determined from time to time by
the boards of control concerned, on the recommendation and with
the consent of the General Board of Control.

2. We recommend that the Synod grant the following wish of
the faculty: "We ask for a man for the purpose of literary
assistance, who, under the faculty's oversight, would take over the
editing of the 'Lutheraner' as well as the 'Kirchlich-Zeitgeschichtliches'
[church-historical current-events section] in 'Lehre und Wehre,' and
would assist with the Quarterly."