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Case Western Reserve University Archives

200 Events in 200 Years: 1880s

1880
The Case School of Applied Science was incorporated. Leonard Case, Jr. (pictured here) had set up a trust to establish the School.


1881
The Holden Farm was purchased, providing 46 acres of land on which the new University Circle campuses of Case School of Applied Science and Western Reserve University were built.


1882
Western Reserve University welcomed undergraduates to the "First Academical Term" in its new University Circle home.


1883
The Medicine faculty voted that the diplomas should hereafter be in English. Earlier diplomas had been in Latin.


1884
Zeta Psi was established. It was the first fraternity at Case School of Applied Science.


1885
Laura Kerr Axtell established the Kerr Professorship of Mathematics, in memory of her brother, Levi. It was the first endowed professorship at Case School of Applied Science.


1886
Cady Staley was elected the first President of Case School of Applied Science.


1887

Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley began a series of precise measurements to demonstrate the existence of the ether, thought to be the medium which transmitted light throughout space.


1888
Hiram C. Haydn was inaugurated as Western Reserve University's fifth president.


1889
The Case School of Applied Science students adopted the cheer "Hoo-Rah-Kai-Rah, S-c-i-e-n-c-e, Hoi, Hoi, Rah, Rah, Case" as the official yell. The yell was used at least through 1958/59.


 

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