Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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Contents SCHOOL LIFE 18 ADMINISTRATION 72 CLASSES 138 ATHLETICS ...268 ORGANIZATIONS 306 INDEX 408

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Seventy-five years is a long, long time ... a long time to live, to grow and to be- come great. In recognition of Brigham Young University ' s seventy-fifth birthday, we proudly present the 1951 Banyan.

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Students of the new Brigham Young Academy pose in front of Lewis Hall on West Center street, first campus home. At a time when Provo was emerging from pioneer conditions, when adobe houses were replacing log cabins, and the old-fashioned horsepower parked beside fence posts, a group of men possessed with foresight looked into the future. In the year 1875 a deed of trust estab- lished Brigham Young Academy, and Karl G. Maeser began teaching with his first twenty-nine students in Lew- Is Hall. Disaster struck in 1884. On a midnight in January flames leaped through the roof of the box-light structure, casting a glow upon the snow for blocks around. A critical financial period followed and the school, now located in the Z.C.M.I warehouse, meagerly survived upon loans and donations. Finally in 1892 the new Education Building on lower campus was completed. When the group entered their new home. Dr. Maeser gave his farewell address; Benjamin Cluff was named the new President. ...In The It was the day of sixty-minute football when these proud fellows won the state and college championship of 1 897.