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Show -- FIVE Idealism, Unrequited Love, and Glorious Understanding I 1925, twenty-four, Madelyn joined IntheSeptember staff of the English Department University age at LDS in Salt Lake City, a position she held for four years. She found con geniality and conviviality there, in contrast to the loneliness of her first year out of the University. Harold Silver continued to see her occasionally, but she had not yet developed a romantic interest in him. When he formally proposed in February 1925, Madelyn turned him down. She did not even mention it in her diary. Harold was devastated, and his mother is said to have been so crushed that she suffered a stroke, from which she died three days later. The LDS University, where Madelyn taught from 1925 to 1929, had gone through a confusing evolution. Starting as the Salt Lake Academy (Madelyn's old high school) in 1886, it had become the chief church school by 1889, and was then called LDS College. Brigham Young had originally intended to endow an academy in Salt Lake City to match those in Logan (Brigham Young College) and in Provo (Brigham Young Academy), but 81 |
