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ular vote. The University of California began (1868) with the complex system of six ex officio regents, eight appointed by the governor and senate for sixteen years and as many more chosen by the fourteen for a like long term, now there are twenty-four members, eight ex officio and sixteen appointed by the governor. The regents of Ohio State University, founded in 1878, have always been appointed by the governor and the senate. The University of South Dakota, first called the University of the Territory of Dakota, 1883, then the University of Dakota, 1887, discarding earlier methods, is now governed by "Regents of Education" appointed by the governor and the senate to have jurisdiction over all educational institutions. The University of North Dakota, 1883, is governed by a board appointed by the governor and senate. The University of Colorado, 1876, by provision of the constitution, has a governing board elected by the people.
The act to establish the University of Nebraska authorized the governor to appoint the members of the first board of regents, and he announced his choice as follows: From the first judicial district, Rev. John C. Elliott, Otoe county, two years; Robert W. Furnas, of Nemaha, four years; Rev. D. R. Dungan, Pawnee, six years; from the second judicial district, Rev. John B. Maxfield of Cass, two years; Abel B. Fuller, of Saunders, four years; Champion S. Chase, of Douglas, six years; from the third judicial district, William B. Dale, of Platte, two years; Rev. William G. Olinger, of Burt, four years; Dr. Fyfield H. Longley, of Washington, six years.
The board was organized at a meeting held in Lincoln on June 3, 1869, when August F. Hervey, uncommonly intelligent and virile, was elected secretary and John L. McConnell treasurer. Mr. Harvey was a protegé of the capital commissioners, functioning as surveyor of the site of Lincoln, and as editor or the peripatetic Statesman, he was a stout defender of the fiercely assaulted acts of his patrons. Mr. McConnell afterward became a well known merchant in Lincoln. At this meeting, the regents approved the plans and specifications for the first building which had
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