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• 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.