Show Formed Two Years After Pioneers By CAROL KNIGHT Chronicle Staff Writer Founded February the University of Utah is the oldest state university west of the Missouri In Salt Lake City was a new frontier community struggling for existence in the desert The first company of Mormon pioneers who settled the valley had arrived only two and a half years But even during their first year a few pioneers began to talk of an institution of higher learning where the rising generations might have the chance to become citizens and upright men and The first provisional government of the Territory of Utah in its second act instituted this called at that time the University of Later dubbed the University of the school saw a continually increasing AT THE CLOSE of World War returning veterans seeking their undergraduate degrees swelled University daytime enrollment to To accommodate the University acquired acres of land and more than This land has enabled the University to plan for future campus growth without recourse to expensive real estate The buildings although of temporary construction and service buildings used by the U.S. Army were renovated and quickly pressed into Although the University has grown at a steady campus growth has taken place through a series of construction spurts as funds could be The campus now covers occupying land chosen for it by Governor Brigham Young and the first board of although fifty years passed before the University began to come into possession of this IN all of the land designated for the University campus was appropriated by the Federal Government for a military But beginning in 1900 and continuing to the various parcels of land were returned to the University through acts of Congress and other government As overwhelming as the problem of increasing enrollments has it is not the only factor requiring consideration in connection with building Approval of the University's 1963 Building Request will result in present and long-term and will serve to make the University as adequate for today's students as it was for the students of U i I |