Word: mormon
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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...
...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 of Utah...
...been fulfilled, take pride in its present achievements. With 10,000 students, a faculty of 500, 151 buildings dotting a 450-acre campus, it boasts first-rate schools of liberal arts, engineering, mines and medicine. Although 76% of the student body and almost 50% of the faculty are of Mormon faith, it draws students from every state and 33 foreign countries, is nondenominational in its administration...
...Protestant clergy who brought about the first great sexual reform of modern times by attacking and reversing the restrictive taboo of ecclesiastical celibacy. There is no inherent reason why they could not lead a second reform of equal magnitude and importance, especially with the cooperation of their Jewish and Mormon colleagues . . ." If they did so, said Scientist Murdock, "the youth of this country might flock to the churches that now repel them, and religion might even be restored to that position of central world significance which it enjoys in most societies but has lost...