In the higher (secondary) schools also gymnastics was to be taken out of the hands of special or professional teachers and entrusted to instructors who give a part of their time to other subjects. University graduates already occupying positions in such schools and university students who looked forward to teaching as a profession were therefore found among the pupils in the one-year course, and in 1905 the government decided to permit the work of that course to be spread over three or four years in the case of students who wished to complete it at the same time they were carrying on their studies in the university. April 1, 1911, the one-year course ceased to be a part of _Statens Lærerhøjskole_, and September 1, 1911, under a new name and as an independent institution (_Statens Gymnastik Institut_), it moved into a building of its own.[152] Two years before this (November 1, 1909) the authorities of the University at Copenhagen had added to the faculty of that institution, on a six-year appointment, a _Docent_ in anatomy, physiology, and theory of gymnastics (Johannes Lindhard, a physician), under whose direction students who desired to add instruction in gymnastics to other teaching after graduation were allowed to take one of their minor courses in preparation for the final examination (_Skoleembedseksamen_) leading to a degree, and so qualifying them to become candidates for positions in higher schools. The instruction in practical gymnastics and games was to be given at _Statens Gymnastik-Institut_, or under the oversight of its director, and was to be at least equal to that given in the one-year course. [Illustration: FIG. 47.—Interior of the Danish Central Institute of Gymnastics, at Copenhagen.]