# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S56
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56 Proceedings of the 29th General or

In accordance with the Synod's resolution, the school year was set at
forty school weeks. The professors' salaries have been made equal to
those of the other schools. The institution's finances were managed
conscientiously, and to date we have been able to provide pupils' board
at $75.00 a year. The institution's property has been kept in good
condition. Only such repairs and improvements were made as were
urgently necessary. The institution was visited by the Reverend General
President F. Pfotenhauer (three times), by the Reverend General
Vice-President J. W. Miller, and by the General Board of Control.

Enrollment of the institution.

This school year we have the largest number of pupils since the
institution's founding: 108 (96 boys and 12 girls). Of this number, 71
are preparing for the preaching ministry, against 42 at the end of the
previous triennium.

By class: Prima: 11; Sekunda: 8; Tertia: 7; Quarta: 12; Quinta: 17;
Sexta: 17. Unclassified: 11; in the business course: 25.

By state: Kansas: 50; Colorado: 2; Oklahoma: 29; Nebraska: 8;
Missouri: 7; Texas: 4; Louisiana: 2; Tennessee: 2; California: 1;
Iowa: 1; Germany: 2.

Request for appropriations.

We kindly ask the Reverend Synod for three appropriations:

1. a further allowance of $15,000 for new construction and conversion
of the present building into a school building;

2. $5000.00 for building a director's residence;

3. a sixth professorship.

New construction.

Our institution was, during the past triennium, filled to the utmost —
indeed, overfilled. We therefore found ourselves compelled to rent two
private residences. This caused an extra expense from the synodical
treasury of over $425.00 per school year. It is understandable that
this makes oversight considerably more difficult, particularly since
one of the buildings is seven blocks from the institution, and that
various disadvantages are connected with it, and that the pupils'
parents are also reluctant to see their children housed in these
residences. 59 live at the institution, including the staff, and 28 in
the private residences. Now, the last Synod had already granted
$15,000 for new construction, and the Kansas District undertook to
raise a further $15,000 for this purpose, a promise it has also kept.
Together with the General Board, which was on the spot expressly for
this purpose, we repeatedly made efforts to begin the construction.
But all sorts of obstacles stood in our way. A disap-