# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1906_S50
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50 Proceedings of the twenty-first convention

That is a great inconvenience for such pupils as live three or four miles from the institution.

Our library is of course still very small, so small that a small hand trunk could easily hold the whole collection of books. Some of our pupils, however, make honest efforts to increase the collection, and some members of the congregation who work for well-to-do whites have also told us already that they have good hope of getting a number of books from their employers.

Our natural history cabinet too is still in the making; yet Teacher Wilde has made it his task to enrich it, and we now hope that a small sum will be granted us by the Synodical Conference [*Synodalkonferenz*], which will enable us to procure cabinets in which we can house our collections from the natural world.

In 1905 a graduate entered the teaching profession, and this year two pupils have completed their studies.

Gratifying is, further, the fact that our institution has also proved itself a mission institution, in that four pupils have already been confirmed since they have been attending the College. Two of these pupils will, God willing, in time become workers in God's vineyard, since both have expressed the wish to become teachers.

Only one of our pupils, one of this year's graduates, has so far been supported, although we have remitted the tuition for a number of pupils. Our out-of-town pupils have so far taken it for granted that they must pay their own expenses, and have therefore made no claim for help.

2. Immanuel Lutheran College in Greensboro, N. C.
(September 1905 to May 1906.)

The school year just ended has been in many respects a rich one: rich in difficulties, disappointments, work and renunciations, but also rich in God's grace and divine blessing.

In the expectation that we might take the new building, begun in July 1905, into use around the turn of the year, we moved at the beginning of September from Concord to Greensboro and set ourselves up in two rented Negro dwellings. The larger served as living quarters for the young men, as a dining hall and for classrooms. One room the director took for his living quarters and office. A few chairs, kitchen utensils, six long tables, etc., were procured. In the three classrooms we nailed a piece of oilcloth to the wall as a blackboard. The institution never had any other teaching aids. The smaller house, consisting of four little rooms, was taken by the girls.

On Sunday, the 17th of September, I laid the cornerstone of the new college building in the name of the triune God. Pastor J. J. Schmidt and Prof. Wahlers assisted. A number of Negroes and some