Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for March, 2009

• Maeser Memorial Building cornerstone box collection
  Posted March 26, 2009 by Gordon Daines

  In 1907 Brigham Young University began its move from lower campus to upper campus when construction started on the Maeser Memorial Building.  The building was intended to recognize the university’s past by memorializing Karl G. Maeser and his contributions to the university while at the same time looking to the university’s future growth.  The building [...]

• The Domestic Organization
  Posted March 19, 2009 by Gordon Daines

  The need to integrate the sacred and the secular in the fledgling Brigham Young Academy meant that discipline at the school was strict.  Karl G. Maeser had been educated in a German educational tradition that emphasized the need for order and obedience to established regulations.  Maeser saw rigid moral discipline as a way to help [...]

• Benjamin Cluff, Jr. and BYU
  Posted March 12, 2009 by Gordon Daines

  Benjamin Cluff, Jr. enrolled as a student at Brigham Young Academy in the spring of 1877.  He excelled at his studies and was asked to teach in the Primary Department in the fall of 1877.  This began a nearly thirty year association with the Academy.  His early teaching experience created a deep desire in Cluff [...]