Editing Brigham Young University (section)

=== Early days ===
The origin of BYU can be traced back to 1862, when [[Warren Newton Dusenberry|Warren Dusenberry]] started a Provo school in Cluff Hall, a prominent adobe building in the northeast corner of 200 East and 200 North.<ref>{{cite news |first = D. Robert |last = Carter |url = http://old.heraldextra.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=53358 |title = The hall the Cluffs built |work = The Daily Herald |date = April 24, 2005 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930185445/http://old.heraldextra.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=53358 |archive-date = September 30, 2007 |df = mdy-all }}</ref>  After some financial difficulties, the school was recreated in the Kinsey and Lewis buildings on Center Street in Provo, and after gaining some recognition for its quality, was adopted to become the Timpanogos branch of the [[University of Deseret]].  When financial difficulty forced another closure, on October 16, 1875, [[Brigham Young]], then [[President of the Church (LDS Church)|president]] of the LDS Church, deeded the property to trustees to create ''Brigham Young Academy'' after earlier hinting a school would be built in [[Draper, Utah|Draper]], Utah, in 1867.<ref>{{cite web|title=BYU: The "almost" college of Draper, Utah |url=http://www.russpage.net/byu-the-almost-college-of-draper-utah/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021233018/https://www.russpage.net/byu-the-almost-college-of-draper-utah/ |archive-date=October 21, 2014  }}</ref> Hence, October 16, 1875, is commonly held as BYU's founding date.<ref name="history">{{cite web| title =Brigham Young High School History: 1869 to 1903 – The Founding Years| publisher =Brigham Young High School| url =http://abc.eznettools.net/D300015/X329586/History/HistoryDecades/From1869to1903.html| access-date =August 19, 2007| archive-date =March 10, 2014| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140310050239/http://abc.eznettools.net/D300015/X329586/History/HistoryDecades/From1869to1903.html| url-status =live}}</ref> Young had been envisioning for several years the concept of a church university.<ref>{{cite book |title=The first hundred years |first=Ernest L. |last=Wilkinson |year=1975 |volume=1 |pages=61–65 |publisher=Brigham Young University Press |isbn=9780842507080 |url=https://archive.org/details/brighamyounguniv01wilk}}</ref> Said Young about his vision: "I hope to see an Academy established in Provo{{nbsp}}... at which the children of the Latter-day Saints can receive a good education unmixed with the pernicious atheistic influences that are found in so many of the higher schools of the country."<ref name="dusenberry"/>
[[File:Brigham Young Academy.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The Brigham Young Academy building {{Circa|1900}}]]
Classes at Brigham Young Academy<ref name="dusenberry">{{cite news|first=Sarah |last=Bills |url=http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/43900 |title=Warren Dusenberry (1875–1876) |work=BYU NewsNet |date=April 16, 2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207182134/http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/43900 |archive-date=February 7, 2012  }}</ref> commenced on January 3, 1876. Dusenberry served as interim principal for several months until April 1876, when Brigham Young's choice for principal arrived—a German immigrant named [[Karl G. Maeser|Karl Maeser]].<ref name="history"/> Under Maeser's direction, the school produced many successful graduates, including future U.S. Supreme Court Justice [[George Sutherland]] and future U.S. Senator [[Reed Smoot]]. The school, however, did not become a university until the end of [[Benjamin Cluff]]'s term at the helm of the institution. At that time, the school was still privately supported by members of the community and was not absorbed and sponsored officially by the church until July 18, 1896.<ref name="byhigh">{{cite web| title =From 1903 to 1920 ~ A High School Within a University| work =Brigham Young High School History| publisher =Brigham Young High School| year =2007| url =http://www.byhigh.org/History/HistoryDecades/From1903to1920.html| access-date =August 20, 2007| archive-date =September 25, 2020| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20200925171128/http://byhigh.org/History/HistoryDecades/From1903to1920.html| url-status =live}}</ref> A series of odd managerial decisions by Cluff led to his demotion; however, in his last official act, he proposed to the board that the academy be named "Brigham Young University". The suggestion received a large amount of opposition, with many members of the Board saying the school was not large enough to be a university, but the decision ultimately passed. One opponent to the decision, Anthon H. Lund, later said, "I hope their head will grow big enough for their hat."<ref name = wilk/>

In 1903, Brigham Young Academy was dissolved and replaced by two institutions, [[Brigham Young High School]] (BY High) and BYU.<ref name="byhigh"/> The BY High class of 1907 was ultimately responsible for the [[Y Mountain|giant "Y"]] that remains embedded on a mountain near campus.<ref name="byhigh"/> The Board elected [[George H. Brimhall]] as the new President of BYU.<ref name = wilk/> Under his tenure in 1904, the new BYU bought {{convert|17|acre|m2}} of land from Provo called "Temple Hill".<ref name="byhigh"/> After some controversy among locals over BYU's purchase of this property, construction began in 1909 on the first building on the current campus, the Karl G. Maeser Memorial.<ref>{{cite web| title =History| work =About BYU| publisher =BYU.edu| year =2007| url =http://unicomm.byu.edu/about/default.aspx?content=history| access-date =August 20, 2007| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070922233053/http://unicomm.byu.edu/about/default.aspx?content=history| archive-date =September 22, 2007| df =mdy-all}}</ref> Brimhall also presided over BYU during a brief crisis involving the theory of evolution. The religious nature of the school seemed at the time to collide with this scientific theory. [[Joseph F. Smith]], church president at the time, settled the question for a time by asking that evolution not be taught at the school. Over time, students and faculty found a way to reconcile the factual elements of evolution with the church's teachings.<ref name="evolution">{{cite news |first=Rachel |last=Keeler |url=https://universe.byu.edu/2019/07/30/the-church-and-byu-an-evolution-of-evolution/ |title=The Church and BYU: An Evolution – of Evolution |date=July 30, 2019 |access-date=July 2, 2021 |archive-date=August 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803204206/https://universe.byu.edu/2019/07/30/the-church-and-byu-an-evolution-of-evolution/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Even though a few at this time described the school as little more than a "religious seminary", many of its graduates from this time would go on to great success and become well renowned in a variety of fields.<ref name = wilk/>