# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S35
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14th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1914. 35

At present there are 127 students at the institution, distributed
among the six classes as follows: 1st class: 18; 2nd class: 17; 3rd
class: 17; 4th class: 30; 5th class: 24; 6th class: 21. In 1912, 15
candidates, and in 1913, 18 candidates, could be released into the
teaching office, and this year 18 are again available.

The following resolutions of the Reverend Synod concerning our
seminary have been carried out during the past triennium. a. Steam
heating has been installed in the old dormitory building. b. The
music building, for which the Reverend Synod authorized $5000.00,
has, thanks to the generosity of the Nebraska District, which raised
the $10,000 it had pledged for this building, been erected and
equipped with the necessary musical instruments. On January 18 of
this year the building was solemnly dedicated under the name
"Nebraska Hall" and put to its intended use.

Regarding this music building we owe the Reverend Synod a further
disclosure, namely this: that by adding a third story we exceeded
the building sum authorized to us by $2600.00. This third story was
occasioned by the following circumstance. When, in the spring of
last year, we were finally able to proceed with the erection of the
music building, a serious shortage of dormitory space had in the
meantime arisen because of the ever-growing number of students, so
that we were forced to give up the assembly hall as a dormitory. How
were we to remedy this shortage, and how could we? Then the saving
thought came to us that a third story on the music building could
provide a solution that was not only comparatively inexpensive but
also sufficient. The Reverend General Board of Control approved our
plan and encouraged us to carry it out, though on the condition that
no extra expense would be caused to the Reverend Synod through any
borrowing of the necessary funds that might become necessary. The
latter has not happened and will not happen. In asking the Reverend
Synod now to approve this course of action of ours and to grant
retroactive authorization for the above-mentioned sum of $2600.00,
we are convinced that we have acted in the Synod's interest and have
saved it a considerable amount, had it needed to remedy the shortage
in some other way.

In addition to the above request, we would then bring before the
Reverend Synod the following further wishes concerning the welfare
of our institution:

1. May the Reverend Synod grant our institution yet another
professorship. Our professors, of whom we can, as always, testify
that they have attended to their office with faithfulness and
self-denial, are in truth overburdened with work. Reviewing the
many, yet necessary, written assignments of the students takes up
almost all their free time, and private study on their part is out
of the question. Moreover, so long as they receive no help, they can
only, by frequently and detrimentally combining classes,