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143 ORIGIN OF PACIFIC UNIVERSITY. 143. velopment. He brought to the institution the required qualities and soon the opposing factions were harmonized. The charter was so amended that a proportion of two thirds of the board should be Congregationalists. but elected by the board as the charter had provided. Thus the institu- tion was enabled to retain the broad unsectarian character which had been in the past emphasized, and at the same time secure the patronage of a denomination closely iden- tified with educational institutions in the West. It was further provided that the institution should never be re- moved from Forest Grove, a question which had grown out of the previous one. The administration of President McClelland was one of development along all lines. The board of trustees was increased at different times to fill vacancies and to provide for the enlarged number by the following : Milton W. Smith, Napoleon Davis, L. H. Andrews, John Som-erville, Newton McCoy, H. H. Northup, Frank M. Warren, A. T. Gilbert, Rev. C. F. Clapp, and Rev. A. W. Ackerman. A larger representation on the board of trustees was given to the alumni of the college, and efforts were made to bring to the support of the institution a body of grad- uates comparatively large, occupying positions of promi- nence in the community, and some possessed of consid- erable wealth. Recognition of the relation of the alumni to the college was a policy in line with the development of educational institutions everywhere and a matter of much importance. Administrative matters were simpli- fied by the creation of committees of the board to be in- trusted with considerable power in the selection of teach- ers, attention to the financial matters, and other business that often requires action sooner than the regular meet- ings of the board could secure it. President McClelland gave his attention to increasing the resources of the institution, and succeeded in securing