Word: deseret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning in 1850 the fledgling Deseret News carried the announcement that "Elder Woodruff has arrived [from the East] with two tons of school books." With Mormon Woodruff and his books, formal education came to the three-year-old settlement that was to grow into Salt Lake City...
...same year Mormon Church President Brigham Young incorporated the University of Deseret (Mormon name for the Utah territory), to "teach all nations all useful arts and sciences" with "instruction . . . brought to the level of the laboring classes...
Brigham Young did not live to see that copious pouring. The first classes of the University of Deseret were attended by 25 pioneers in a log cabin. The next year the university admitted a few shy young women clad in their Sunday best, thus became one of the first coeducational state universities in the country. But in 1852 the school had to close down from lack of funds; it did not reopen until 1867. Two years later, a scholarly non-Mormon gold prospector, Dr. John Rocky Park, became president and began to build what was to become the modern University...