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would have been impossible but for the generosity of Uncle Jesse Knight and family The beautiful campus on Temple Hill, of thirty-eight acres, partly donated and partly purchased, is one of the most valued acquisitions of the institution. In the field of student activities the Brigham Young University has had its greatest successes in basket-ball and debating. The pennants in the new trophy room ar° eloquent witnesses of the fact that for many years we were the State champions in basket-ball. It is just ten years since the Brigham Young University began debating with teams outside the state. In that period of time we have lost only one debate to outside teams. It was also in the year 1910 that we met on the track Stanford University, the only time we have had an out-of-state track meet. This year the students have built a foot-path up to the Maeser Memorial and are at this time collecting money to pay for a moving picture machine. In this respect they are but following the students who before them have dug trenches, paved walks, purchased and planted trees, founded libraries, fur- nished a gymnasium and bought tracts of land for the Temple Hill campus. Although the students who have marched under the banner of the White and Blue number thousands, and the persons who have served on the faculty number hundreds, three presidents have directed its destinies. These men are Dr. Karl K. Maeser, Dr. Benjamin Cluff, and Dr. George H. Brimhall. The supreme test of any institution is its output. This may be called the acid test. When put to this test the Brigham Young University feels just pride in its history of forty-five years. It is not possible to include names in an article of this length; suffice to sav that in practically every line of worthy endeavor and notable achievement the names of its graduates and former students are written high on the roll of honor. OUR FIRST HOME
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History of the Brigham Young University ttice Louise Reynolds UK Brigham Young University, formerly known .1- the Brigham Young Academy, was founded by a deed f trust executed bv President Brigham Young, October l ' ». 187. ). Soon alter this date a brief term of the institution was carried on by Hon. Warren X. Dusenberry, who subsequently resigned to practice law. It was in the spring of the year 1870 that Dr. Karl G. Maeser, under special instruction from President Brigham Young, held a preliminary term, which covered six weeks. On that first day twenty-nine students were enrolled. Joseph 11. ki I. 1 being the twenty-ninth. The first faculty consisted of three teachers, Karl G. Maeser. Milton 11. Hardy, and Anna Kristina Smoot. familiarly known as Tecnie Smoot. Three persons made up the first graduating class. Teeme Smoot, Sam Moore, and Caddie Daniels Mills. Caddie Daniels Mills was the first normal graduate to teach in the school Mi-. Smoot came on to the faculty before her graduation. In the hall of the high school building, at the present time, hang- a first painting of a square, red brick building enveloped in flames. This was the first home of the institution. It occupied the present site of the Farmers and Mer- chants Hank. It burned to the ground Sunday. January 21. 1881. President Charles (). Card of Cache alley, hearing of the disaster, made a trip to PrOVO, promising to charter a train and take the students to Logan if they would go. That such a thing was wholly unnecessary was proved by the fact thai only one day of school was lost. The basement of the old tabernacle, the V. 0. Smoot building, and the S. S. Jones building were hurriedly put into con- dition and made to furnish temporary quarters for the school. The following year the Z. C. M. I. warehouse was partitioned off and turned into class rooms. Amidst the puffing of engines and the shriek of lo comotives classes were held. In January. 18°2. the students took the long trail up I niversity -line, led by Dr. Karl G. Maeser. and entered the High School building by the front door. It is nearly thirty years since the High School building Has erected. t the time it was built it was the pride of the entire state, for it marked the begin- ning of a new era in school buildings. Those who thought it- capacity limit- less wire surprised to find that six years had scarcely passed when the institution began to agitate for another building. In less than a month. Senator Smoot obtained money enough to erect the building containing our chief school auditorium. College Hall. The Alumni Association, under the leadership of Professor Edwin S. Hinckley, contributed the money that purchased the heating plant and the furniture. The whit: ' mar- ble slab in the hall bearing the date. May 21. I8°8. has the name of the donor- to the building. Since that time -ix buildings have been added, the most important of which is the Mae.er Memorial, erected to the sainted memory of Dr. Karl G. Mae- -r. I hree of the group of eight buildings, now comprising the University plant. 10
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