# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S244
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maintaining the institution alongside its large mission field becomes too heavy a burden — since the district, too, is convinced this serves the institution's welfare — the Kansas District at its last meeting unanimously passed the following resolution:

"Resolved, that we ask and move the General Synod, at its meeting in May 1911, to take St. John's College entirely into its charge and care, as it has done with the other full gymnasia in the individual districts; that the Kansas District, however, retain any debts for repayment, with the exception of the sum of $983.06 (now $918.06) approved by the General Board of Control for the furnace."

The Synod should now also elect its own board of control for the institution.

We, the board of control, consider it our duty to bring a few of the institution's needs to the attention of the Honorable General Synod:

1. That appointing a sixth full-time teacher is desirable, and may even become necessary. Our professors now teach on average 35 hours a week, Pastor Werling 15. With the present teaching staff we can manage for now, as long as the upper classes remain small; but since the number of students is expected to grow in the coming years, the Synod should now authorize the board of control to hire a sixth full-time teacher as soon as it becomes necessary;

2. That the institution should receive the customary appropriations for the library and the natural-history cabinet.

3. Finally, we feel compelled to inform the Synod that, in our conviction, an addition to the building has become an absolute necessity. The present building (102×57×42 feet; material: stone) contains, besides the auditorium, 5 classrooms, 10 living rooms, 7 bedrooms, a library room, 2 rooms for the building superintendent, etc. It offers space for at most 60 students. This building is barely able to hold the present number of students. 53 students live in the building. 42 of these intend to prepare for the preaching ministry. Seven students — though these are not preparing for church service — already had to be quartered outside the institution and take only their meals at the college. Should the institution again be filled next September as heavily with students devoting themselves to the preaching ministry as it was last September (22), then the institution would be crowded to capacity by these students alone, not even counting students who might enroll simply to continue their general education. Should this not happen next September, how will matters stand with space in two or three years? Here we must also recall that we lack classrooms, and that several of the existing ones are partly too small and partly too