Benjamin Cluff.
Last Principal of Brigham Young Academy and First President of Brigham Young University , and responsible for name change to Brigham Young University
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About Benjamin Cluff
Benjamin Cluff Jr. was the first president of Brigham Young University and its third principal. Under his administration, the student body and faculty more than doubled in size, and the school went from an academy to a university, and was officially incorporated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Cluff changed class periods from half an hour to a full hour, adopted the official colors of the university, started summer school and the Alumni Association, encouraged the university's first student newspaper, provided the first student loans, and developed an intercollegiate sports system.
Everything about Benjamin Cluff →- Occupation
- missionary
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 7, 1858
- Died
- June 16, 1948, June 14, 1948