# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S231
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c. The hospital [infirmary] should be enlarged and improved. To
be sure, it serves its purpose when there are few patients. But
when cases of illness pile up, especially when serious cases are
involved, it is altogether inadequate. About $1500.00 will be
needed for this purpose.

We would gladly give exact figures. But for a mass of smaller
repairs it is a difficult matter to make truly reliable estimates. We
do, however, give the assurance that we will not exceed the sums
named here by a single cent.

We therefore ask:

1. for $2000.00 for the upkeep of the classroom building,

2. for $3000.00 for the upkeep of the three other buildings, and
for grading the new lot,

3. for $1500.00 for the hospital. — Total: $6500.00.

In all deference,
The board of control of Concordia College at Milwaukee, Wis.
On its behalf,
Milwaukee, Wis., March 16, 1911.          B. Sievers, Secretary.

Concordia College at St. Paul, Minn.

In submitting to the Reverend Synod herewith its due report on
the school at St. Paul, Minn., the undersigned board, in looking
back over the past triennium, first of all recalls with heartfelt
gratitude the goodness and faithfulness the Lord has richly shown
our school.

To be sure, it has also pleased the Lord to let us feel his hand in
heavy visitation, as in an epidemic of measles, scarlet fever, and
diphtheria. It struck us in the first half of 1910 and put a large
number of students on their sickbeds. It was a trying time, in which
pale death stalked around our college and we had to be anxious for
many a hopeful young life. Two dear, gifted young men, the second-
year student M. Neils and the first-year student J. Rehwaldt, were
taken by a blessed death from the ranks of the future workers in the
Lord's vineyard, the church. Since many students, weakened by
illness, were unable to keep up with strenuous study, and others left
to recover in their parents' homes and so as not to further expose
the healthy to the danger of infection, the school was closed on May
27.

Although the board was later able to give the assurance that the
best precautionary measures had been taken against a recurrence of
the disease, we nevertheless looked forward to the new school year
with concern, fearing that the conditions of

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