The general control is vested in a Board appointed by the King and composed of a president and three other members, of whom one must belong to the army or navy, one must be a teacher (_skolman_), and one a physician. The corps of instruction includes a head teacher and a second teacher in each of the three departments, the hygienic or educational, the military, and the medical; two women teachers, one of them in hygienic and the other in medical gymnastics; and extra teachers, both men and women, as these are required—a total of fifteen persons in 1900-1901. The royal statutes provide that all who give instruction at the school must be graduates from its courses. From among the head teachers the King selects one to act as director of the Institute, in immediate charge of the buildings and their contents and of the work that goes on in the halls and classrooms. This appointment is for five years, and is renewable. The school year, divided into a fall and a spring semester, begins on the 15th of September and closes on the 25th of May, with an intermission of two weeks at Christmas time. For male pupils three courses are offered. The “Instructor’s Course,” extending through a single school year, gives the one who completes it the right to teach gymnastics in the elementary schools (_folkskolor_) or in one of the lower (five-year) secondary schools (_lägre allmänna läroverk_). In the “Gymnastic Teacher’s Course” a second year is added, and the graduate is eligible to a position as teacher of gymnastics in any public educational institution, civil or military, in the country. The course in medical gymnastics, leading to the title “Gymnastic Director,” requires still another year of study and practice, although for students of medicine the prescribed work may be shortened. No person, unless he is himself a physician, is allowed to give treatment by means of medical gymnastics in Sweden except in cases where a duly authorized physician has prescribed it in writing. Young women can complete both the gymnastic teacher’s course and that in medical gymnastics in two years, on account of the smaller range of practical exercises to be covered. [Illustration: FIG. 40.—Students (men) at the Stockholm Central Institute in 1900-1901.]