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Allen Smith, Jr. painting of Leonard Case, Jr.
12020-06-08T14:54:43+00:00Christine Liebson6faeb936e67a615bb9a88f40102e089038d20a5496Portrait of Leonard Case, Jr., founder and namesake of Case School of Applied Scienceplain2020-09-11T16:54:19+00:00011881840?-1880?1840?-1880?F25000 Art ; Case ; R26000 DonorsunknownCWRU ArchivesPeople ; ThingsAllen Smith, Jr. painting of Leonard Case, Jr., unknownCopyright status unknown.Case, Leonard, Jr.Christine Liebson6faeb936e67a615bb9a88f40102e089038d20a54
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12020-03-24T10:45:48+00:00Case School of Applied Science86Did 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_header2021-03-02T15:28:43+00:0018811881-1886Allen 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.
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.
12020-01-30T16:08:26+00:00200 Events in 200 Years: 1880s20This section provides detailed information about the university from 1880-1889plain2025-04-21T12:36:44+00:0018801880 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.