# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1917_S22
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22 Proceedings of 30th General Convention,

Synod gave a hearty vote of thanks to the loyal Lutherans of
Fort Wayne for the generous gifts that resulted in the building of
an $18,000 gymnasium without expenses to Synod’s treasury. |

CONCORDIA COLLEGE AT MILWAUKEE, WIs.

Enrolment: 1914—1915, 209 students; 1915—1916, 201; 1916 to
1917, 181. ‘ , “4
Of the $9,000 appropriated three years ago, the Board used only
about one-half, arranging toilets at a cost of $4,500, plus interest of.
$214.68, and deferring the building of a hospital and the leveling of.
the-campus, for which more was needed than ‘ appropriated. ‘Be- |
cause of the high cost of everything at present, the Board will wai :
with the hospital; but leveling of the campus may at: any time be.’
required by the Board of Public Works. *
The Board also requested increase of salaries of all professors
and of the steward on account of the high cost of living.

ACTION.
The Board was empowered to have the campus leveled aft
consulting the General Board as to the cost.
It was left to the local Board to determine the salary of 'th
_Steward, who also serves as baker. .
With reference to salaries of professors, Synod adopted:a rego.

lution applying to all institutions, which see p. 28 f. under “Generg
Resolutions.”

CONCORDIA COLLEGE AT ST. PAUL, MINN.

The Board of Supervision reported that the ten acres of lan
lying across from the College buildings had been advantageously
exchanged for fifteen acres contiguous to the College property. Synod
ratified this exchange, :

The Synod of 1914 had appropriated $30,000 toward a new
lecture-hall, with additional $30,000 Promised by the Minnesota
District. The Board declared that with the rise in materials and
labor no appropriate building could have been erected for $80,000.
Accordingly, the Minnesota District Synod of 1915 resolved to raise
$70,000 with the help of other Northwestern Districts. The Minne-
sota District secured subscriptions for $33,438, with $24,000 paid in;
and the Iowa District has $32,042 subscribed, with $24,000 paid i
With the consent of the General Board of Supervision plans have bee
prepared and estimates secured for a building to cost approximate]
$100,000.

APPROPRIATIONS.

Synod tendered a hearty vote of thanks to the Northwestern ig
Districts for their generous support of the St. Paul College, .