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 In accordance with this act, the then Agricultural College
 at once assumed the title of the University of Florida.
 The University of Florida existed for two years. By an
 act of the legislature of 1905 (known as the Buckman bill),
 this institution, together with the Florida State College at
 Tallahassee, the Normal School at DeFuniak Springs, the
 East Florida Seminary at Gainesville, the South Florida
 Military College at Bartow, and the Agricultural Institute in
 Osceola County, were abolished. In their stead, this act or-
 dains:
 "Section 12. That there shall be established, and there
 is hereby created the following institutions of higher educa-
 tion in this state, to-wit: One University to be known as the
 'University of the State of Florida,' and one Female Seminary
 to be known as the 'Florida Female College'." (The next
 legislature changed the name of this institution to Florida
 State College for Women.)
 For their management it provided:
 "Section 13. That there is hereby created a 'Board of
Control' which shall consist of five citizens of this state who
shall be appointed by the governor and their terms of office
shall be for four years, except that of the first board appointed
under this act, two members thereof shall be appointed for the
term of two years and three members thereof shall be ap-
pointed for the term of four years."
 The fight to abolish the old system of institutions of higher
learning and to establish a new one was marked by an unusual
amount of oratory and political fireworks in the legislature.
Such a step involved permanent changes and far-reaching re-
sults. The legislators realized it was not a matter to take up
lightly.
 There was, of course, a sharp division among the law-
makers as to the whole plan, and equally distinct divisions
among those who favored the proposed change as to what steps
were wisest to take in setting up the new system.
 Hon. E. L. Wartmann, a member of the legislature from
Marion County, later to become a member of the Board of
Control of the educational institutions and a close friend of