Franklin Stewart Harris (1884 – April 18, 1960) was president of Brigham Young University from 1921 until 1945. His administration was the longest in BYU history and saw the granting of the first master's degrees. Under his administration the school moved towards being a full university. He set up several colleges, such as the College of Fine and Performing Arts with Gerrit De Jong as the founding dean.
Harris was an agricultural scientist. He re...
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Franklin Stewart Harris (1884 – April 18, 1960) was president of Brigham Young University from 1921 until 1945. His administration was the longest in BYU history and saw the granting of the first master's degrees. Under his administration the school moved towards being a full university. He set up several colleges, such as the College of Fine and Performing Arts with Gerrit De Jong as the founding dean.
Harris was an agricultural scientist. He received his doctorate from Cornell University. He had served as the agriculture department head and head of the experiment station at Utah State Agricultural College and left BYU to become president of that institution.
The Harris Fine Arts Center on BYU's Provo campus is named after him.
Harris was born in Benjamin, Utah Territory, United States. In the 1890s his family moved to the Mormon Colonies in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Harris did his early studies at BYU before going on to receive his doctorate from Cornell.
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