# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S43
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14th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1914. 43

Thus the Synod resolved after the relocation of the practical
seminary to St. Louis.

IV. Finally, one should consider that the late Dr. W. Sihler was
active in the whole transaction of transferring the College Farm to
the local institution. He wanted it to belong to, and remain with,
the Fort Wayne institution, because most of the money for
purchasing the farm had come from the Fort Wayne congregation.
Otherwise he would certainly have seen to it that, when the
practical seminary was relocated to St. Louis, the College Farm
would also have been transferred to that practical seminary, and it
would have received the use and income of the farm. Instead, on the
contrary, he saw to it that the proceeds of the farm went to the
local Concordia College, and the Synod has tacitly approved this for
over fifty years. —

When it is a matter of real property, one must, as is well known,
always ask: What does the "charter" say? What does the "deed"
state? The question of whether the College Farm belongs to the
local institution or not — that is, whether it is, so to speak, a
bequest to this institution or not — is thus a legal question. We
therefore recommend to the Reverend Synod that it commission two
attorneys from the State of Indiana (since attorneys from other
states would first have to look up this state's statutes), but from
outside the city of Fort Wayne, to investigate this matter.

11. We can give the Reverend Synod two certainly welcome pieces of
news.

I. Our Middle District has resolved to raise about $5000.00 itself
for building a new, sanitary facility (as required both by the
number of students and by state law) at the institution, without
burdening the General Synod with it.

II. The cost of furnishing the new dining hall (about $2500.00) will
be covered by the Middle and Michigan Districts.

12. The board of control finds itself obliged to lay two requests
for appropriations before the Reverend Synod.

I. We ask for a new director's residence, or that the present
residence be thoroughly renovated and enlarged. The director is,
after all, more than any of the other professors, obliged to offer
hospitality and lodging. Scarcely a week passes in which his
hospitality is not called upon. Director Lücke and his wife are, as
is well known, hospitable and glad to offer lodging at any time; but
there is a lack of room. They have no guest room. When guests stay
overnight, the family must make do with a sofa and the like. This is
certainly regrettable and should not be so. The study, which must
also serve as a receiving room, is too small. The kitchen is so
cramped that two people cannot work in it at the same time. The
cellar is low, dark, and musty. When one considers that the house
was built already in the early eighteen-sixties, that is,