# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S218
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entered here that September, was filled again. The work of the
vacant professorship during the vacancy year was carried out, as
well as could be managed, by the remaining professors with the
help of some students.

The number of students here was 213 in the school year 1908 to
1909; 217 in the school year 1909–1910; and 226 in the school year
1910 to 1911. These figures include the Wisconsin, Slovak, and
vicaring students. In 1908, 28 candidates entered the preaching
office, in the following year 35, and last year (1910) 31. In 1908,
46 requests for vicars came in, of which 31 were satisfied; in 1909,
35 of 78 requests were granted; in 1910 only 52 of the 88 requests
could be met. During the past triennium there were several cases of
serious illness, but no deaths. Last winter there were a few cases of
diphtheria and scarlet fever. To prevent whole buildings from being
placed under quarantine, or the school even having to be closed
altogether for a time, the board of control had several diphtheria
patients taken to the city isolation hospital and, since proper care
was lacking there, had them cared for at the Synod's expense.

In the school year 1909–1910 the Reverend Slovak Synod placed
its own professor, Prof. Tuhy, with the Slovak students here, who,
however, after only a year's work, followed a call into the preaching
office.

The repairs and improvements approved by the last Reverend
Delegate Synod have all been carried out. New seats for the
auditorium, for which the Synod had approved $500.00, were
procured for $477.00. The repair of Building No. 4 and the
sanitary fitting-out of the sickrooms, for which $3260.00 had been
approved together, were carried out for $2958.24, a saving of
$301.76. The sum of $1000.00, which the Synod approved for the
purchase of a piece of land, has been paid out to the board of
control and repaid to the legacy fund from which it had been
borrowed. The Synod now holds title to this land free of any clause
of any kind. The property (330×85½ feet) already has a value of
at least $2000.00.

Although the board of control knows that large sums will this
time too be sought from the Reverend Synod for other schools and
will have to be granted by it, it cannot help laying the following
before the Reverend Synod:

1. The Reverend Synod should tear down the entire service wing
on Building No. 1 and have a new building erected which, besides a
kitchen and bakery, would also contain a spacious dining hall for
the students and two classrooms. Size: 65×100 feet; estimated cost:
$12,000.00.