# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S82
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82 Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

tion, ventilation, aud the equipment of all roonis, whether in dor-
mitories or in the a¢ademic buildings, have been purchased and
installed with the sole object in- view of keeping down the cost: of

maintenance and replacement. ep eet ne og

Twelve residences are provided for the professors. These are “4
being built under plans developed by the architect and the . i
Committee. ee er wy a

in order that all this work might be done according to the 4
extremely strict specifications of our architect, the Committee pro- - 4
vided an elaborate system of checks and counter-checks. For the 4
protection of our interests we’ did not only have a capable member ‘a
of the firm of Day & Klauder on the job throughout the years “4
1924-26, but the Committee had its own superintendent on the <4
grounds. Thug all material and labor were checked in the’ most ql
rigid manner that experience and ingenuity can devise. Contracts
were entered into only after a spécial committee had scrutinized .@
them in detail. No extras were ever allowed without the recommen- - Z
dation of a special committee, and then they were voted upon in the 4
entire committee. Payments of money were made with a similar 4
system of checks and safeguards. ae EE ‘

The buildings are equipped with a very elaborate system’ of -
_ steam- and water-pipes and electric wiring, which centers in the
power-house. The power-plant will heat the buildings, as well as
those needed later, up to an enrolment of 800 and will at the same
time provide electricity and power. It is connected by tunnels, 1,500
feet long and 6 feet high, with all the buildings. In the Service
Building a complete set of ranges, refrigerators, and kitchen machin-
ery has been installed. The Seminary has its own ice-plant. In
the Lecture Hall basement a ventilator renews the air for lecture-
rooms, the Assembly Hall, and the Library. ee

The reason for enumerating these items (very roughly, indeed)
is to emphasize the fact that the Committee, throughout the trien- 4
nium, has had in mind to build a college not only beautiful and
stately in style, but above all practical in its appointments and
entailing a minimum of up-keep. Its object was to carry out not
only the letter, but the spirit of the resolutions of 1923, and these
resolutions, after long discussion on the floor, .and ‘after close exami-
nation of blue-prints and architect’s drawings by the delegates, ap-
proved a plan which. would cost more than the alternate Plan B ;
submitted, simply because it represented a more becoming style of. i
architecture. It was the task of the Committee to meet the wish .@
thus recorded and not to make plainness and bare utility its ideal. 3
To carry out, also in equipment and fixtures, the type of building 3