Centennial Edition

In this first Centennial number, BYU Studies looks back at some of the accomplishments of the BYU faculty by reprinting representative articles that faculty members have published in national and international journals during the university’s first hundred years. The articles were nominated by the college deans as representative of the kinds of articles the faculties of the various colleges have published. Because of space limitations we are able to reprint only one paper from each college, and at that, this issue is fifty percent larger than regular size. Recognizing that we have a readership that crosses many disciplines, we were unable to reprint some excellent papers which made significant contributions to the world of knowledge and represented major achievements on the part of BYU faculty because those papers were written for technical and specialized readers in the field. To retain as much of their original flavor as possible, the papers reprinted here are in the styles of the various journals in which they first appeared. We wish to thank all the journals concerned for permission to reprint these articles.