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A Place to Train

Franklin S. Harris, 5th president of Brigham Young University

Standing on the campus where as a country boy from Benjamin, Utah, he had dreamed of the future, President Franklin Stewart Harris said on Founder's Day 1923, "Behold the greatest university campus in all the world - in embryo. More students will come, the faculty will be enlarged, new colleges will be added, and there is no end to the improvements which can be made. Truly the campus is the setting of what will undoubtedly be the greatest university in the world, a place to train for leaders."

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Full Name: Franklin S. Harris
Grad Year: 1907
Post date: April 2, 2018
Author: BYU Office of the Presidents