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Mechanical Arts (at Ames), and the normal school at Cedar Rapids under the government of a "State Board of Education" consisting of nine members, appointed by the governor with the consent of two-thirds of the senate for a term of six years.
Of the five states which started their universities with governing boards chosen by their respective legislatures, namely, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin and Nebraska, Iowa alone brought that method into the present period of university development. I have examined the experiments of thirteen states, besides Nebraska, with the governing boards of their universities, but space permits only a skeleton outline of the main changes they have made. The University of Michigan began, in 1837, with the appointive system, but the constitution of 1850 fixed the elective method beyond practicable recall. Indiana University, established in 1838, was governed by a board of trustees named by the legislature. Until 1855 vacancies were filled by the board itself; then, until 1891, by the state board of education. Since 1891 the board of education has appointed five trustees and the alumni resident in the state have appointed three of their own number. The governing hoard of the University of Missouri was appointed from 1839 till 1868 by the legislature; since then it has been appointed by the governor and the senate. The regents of the University of Wisconsin were elected by the legislature from 1848 to 1866; since then they have been appointed by the governor alone. The regents of the University of Minnesota have been appointed, from 1851 to the present time, by the governor and the senate. At the University of Kansas, the regents were appointed from 1864 to 1913 by the governor and the senate; then all educational institutions were placed under the control of a "State Board of Administration," consisting of three members appointed by the governor and the senate and the governor as ex officio member and chairman; in 1917 this method was spread over all state institutions. At the University of Illinois, the regents were appointed from 1867 to 1887 by the governor and the senate; since then they have been elected by pop-
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