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• 1 2020-03-24T10:45:48+00:00 Case School of Applied Science 86 Did you know? In 1881, Case School of Applied Science opened its doors to 16 students. It's downtown location, 7 Rockwell Street, is now occupied by Mall A. image_header 2021-03-02T15:28:43+00:00 1881 1881-1886 Allen Smith Jr. Painting of Leonard Case Jr.

   

   

  Portrait of Leonard Case, Jr., founder and namesake of Case School of Applied Science.

   

   

  The first four years of the School's existence was in the Case family's home on Rockwell Street in downtown Cleveland - often referred to as the Case homestead.

   

   

  
  Case Homestead Exterior 1

   

  Classes were held in the family house, while the chemistry and physics laboratories were on the second floor of the barn.

  Astronomical observations were made in the back yard where a transit was set up.

  Case Homestead Barn Exterior 1  

   

   

   

  Because Amasa Stone's gift to move Western Reserve College from Hudson to Cleveland in 1882 also included a provision for the purchase of land in the University Circle area for Case, it was only a matter of time before Case constructed a new college building on its new land and moved in 1885.

   

   

  An October 1886 letter from George C. S. Southworth to J. Twing Brooks, urges the School's trustees to move Case back downtown after the devastating Case Main fire.

  Media/Letter from George C.S. Southworth to J. Twing Brooks

   

   

   

   

  
  Media/Letter from George C.S. Southworth to J. Twing Brooks
   

   

   

• 1 2020-01-30T16:08:26+00:00 1880-1889 22 This section for 200 Events in 200 Years provides highlights of the university's history from 1880-1889. plain 2025-06-26T15:24:54+00:00 1880 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.