# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S225
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"This report met with general joyful and stirring approval among
the Synod members. Especially moved by it were also the deputies,
who had held a special meeting to deliberate on this matter, and
who took the floor and declared that conditions at Addison were
such that a thorough alteration and improvement of the spatial
conditions there had to be undertaken under all circumstances. This
was also expressed as the opinion of the entire teaching staff, who
had likewise discussed the matter in a special meeting of their own.

"The Reverend [District] Synod then resolved as follows: first
and foremost, to ask the General Synod to carry out the building at
Addison ahead of all others. Further, all the committee's
recommendations were raised to the status of synodical resolutions.

"Further: the delegates traveling from here to the General
Synod shall be asked to inspect conditions at Addison personally
before it."

Submitted with due respect on behalf [of the District],
                                        F. P. Merbitz,
                        Secretary of the Northern Illinois District.

Teachers' Seminary at Seward, Nebr.

Looking back over the past triennium, we actually have not
much to report to a Reverend Synod; for, apart from one notable
exception, the work at the seminary has proceeded without
disturbance, which must call us to particular thanks toward our
gracious God. The disturbance and interruption of instruction
occurred in the fall of last year, when, owing to an epidemic of
cerebro-spinal meningitis in and around Seward, the school 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 what we may
confidently hope was a blessed death. These were the two students
Andreas Meyer and Viktor Leimer. After a three-week quarantine
the students were able to return to the school.

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
great cause to thank God for keeping them in good health.

At present there are 121 students at the school. In the past
triennium 52 graduates were sent out into the teaching office. — As
for the moral conduct of the students, although there were no gross
excesses, various failings of the old