# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S224
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week, a committee together with the board of control, [visiting] the
Addison school, and then submitted the following report on what it
had found there and what recommendations it should make to the
[District] Synod:

"'I. We have found:

"'1. that the present dormitory is in such a condition that it
appears to us not merely desirable but called for that our students
at Addison should have a new dormitory; for: a. the living rooms
are far too small for the number of occupants. In addition, these
rooms are in many cases poorly ventilated, and the distribution of
light is not the best; b. the halls in the dormitory, in which close
to 200 students live, are only 4, or at most 5, feet wide, the
stairways narrow; c. the bedrooms are in part low attic rooms that
should not be used for sleeping purposes at all; some of them may
rightly and fairly be called "fire-traps." In addition, the bedrooms
are scattered through every part of the school. That is a great
disadvantage; d. in some dormitories there stand 30, or as many as
40, beds and just as many trunks.

"'2. We have further found that, as regards classrooms, the
school is poorly provided for. For one thing, there are not enough
of them, and further, some of those there are, are also too small.

"'II. A few recommendations:

"'1. We hold that the building approved by the Reverend
General Synod at $30,000.00 would not meet the school's needs.
We therefore recommend that a Reverend Synod be advised against
erecting it.

"'2. We further hold that the plan proposed by the board of
control — namely, to build a new dormitory for about 200 students
and to remodel the old buildings appropriately — is the best one,
because the school would thereby, a., obtain a new dormitory in
which all students could live and sleep; b., get a good classroom
building in which all the classrooms could be housed, along with
the museum as well; c., gain room in the old building for all the
music, library, reading, and society rooms, and also a spacious
auditorium. We therefore recommend that a Reverend Synod
endorse this plan.

"'3. We further recommend that the Northern Illinois District
ask the General Synod to grant $50,000.00 for a dormitory to be
erected at Addison, and $10,000.00 for remodeling the old
buildings.

"'4. We further recommend, so that the General Synod may see
that we mean this in earnest, that the Northern Illinois District
collect a further $30,000.00 and place this sum at the Synod's
disposal for completing the building — which sum the congregations
of the Northern Illinois District are to collect by the next Delegate
Synod.'