Show BEQUESTS TO university OF UTAH A fund of for the construction of a dormitory at the university of utah is provided in the will oi f mrs M belle rice widow of windsor rice which was filed recently in the third district court by A C ellis jr counsel in addition to this gift to the university the will secures a sum of for the erection of a memorial arch in liberty park in salt lake city the rice endowment is the fifth gift g ift to the university since its foundation five endowments i of any size s ze ex hepting legislative appropriations have been received rece i ved an endowment of was settled on the chair of geology by the salt lake literary and scientific association the james mcgregor estate placed an endow endowment meni fund of practically in the hands of the university the government of the united states granted 60 acres of the fort douglas military reservation to the university and 32 acres were added to the plot in 1904 an appropriation of was made by the state legislature in 1899 to erect appropriate buildings on the present site of the universia university sit y the state was bonded for the sum of in 1911 for the construction of the park memorial building in addition to these may be mentioned the celebrated saline state lands grant to the university which grant proved illegal on account of the use of a ordinate coordinate co conjunction instead of a subordinate conjunction thus costing the university about the rice bequeathal of is the last gift to be received by the university |