Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for February, 2009

• The Songs of BYU
  Posted February 26, 2009 by Gordon Daines

  Attend any major sporting event at Brigham Young University and you will hear a rousing rendition of the Cougar Fight Song by the BYU student body. The familiar strains of the Cougar Fight Song were written by Clyde D. Sandgren and became the school fight and pep song in 1947. It replaced the previous pep [...]

• Course catalogs and class schedules
  Posted February 19, 2009 by Gordon Daines

  One of the more frequent reference requests fielded by the University Archivist involves the need to gather information about classes that individuals had taken as students at Brigham Young University.  Sometimes the requests are for individuals writing their family histories and they want to be able to accurately describe the coursework that they did as [...]

• Basketball at Brigham Young University
  Posted February 11, 2009 by Gordon Daines

  Among the most popular athletic events held on campus are the men’s basketball games in the Marriott Center. In recent years the Marriott Center has gained a fearsome reputation as an extremely difficult place to win. Many people are surprised to discover that basketball began at Brigham Young Academy in 1900 as a women’s sport. [...]

• Ernest L. Wilkinson and BYU
  Posted February 5, 2009 by Gordon Daines

  One of the most dynamic individuals ever associated with Brigham Young University was Ernest L. Wilkinson. Wilkinson’s association with the university began during World War I. On October 25, 1918 Wilkinson was inducted into the Brigham Young University Student Army Training Corps and served until the end of the war. In 1919 he formally enrolled [...]