What prominent Utahn was the first student to register at Brigham Young Academy when it opened in 1876?
(Answer on page 13)
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Reed Smoot, later an apostle and U.S. senator who eventually became chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was the first to register at Brigham Young Academy. He was also a member of the academy's first graduating class, and at one time, the only student in its academic department.
He was an untiring champion of the university and in 1926, said: "I can see temple hill covered with the buildings of Brigham Young University and I expect to see the dream verified. Don't think that the institution has stopped growing, for it was founded on faith and shall never cease growing."
Source: The Sons of Brigham, by T. Earl Pardoe, pp. xvii, 178-186.