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  Charles S. Howe
  (9/29/1858-4/18/1939)
  
  Secretary of the Faculty, Case School of Applied Science, 6/4/1902-11/2/1902
  
  Acting President, Case School of Applied Science, 11/3/1902-5/31/1903
  
  President, Case School of Applied Science, 6/1/1903-Summer 1929
  
  Education
  
  B.S., Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1878, Chemistry
  
  Ph.D., College of Wooster, 1887

  
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  University Awards 

  Western Reserve University awarded Howe the honorary Doctor of Laws, 1924.

  Case School of Applied Science awarded Howe the honorary Doctor of Engineering, 1929.

  Case Western Reserve University dedicated one of the men’s south side residences Charles S. Howe House to “honor the memory of the second president of Case, an outstanding mathematician and astronomer,” 1969.

  
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  Career

  Principal, High School in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Fall 1879

  Principal, Albuquerque Academy, New Mexico, 1879-1881

  Assayer for prospectors, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1881-1882

  Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, 1883-1889

  Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Case School of Applied Science, 1889-1902

  Kerr Professor of Mathematics, Case School of Applied Science, 1890-1908

  President Emeritus, Case School of Applied Science, 1929-1939

  
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  University Numbers
  
                                               1902/03             1928/29
  Enrollment                              426                            679
  Number of faculty                    27                             67
  Tuition per year                    $100                         $250
  
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  Milestones (non-university-related events are in italics)
  
  1902   Albert Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity was published.
  
  1903   The 5-year joint course with Adelbert College, the undergraduate men’s college of Western
               Reserve University, was established. The first students of the combined course entered
               Case in 1906.
  
  1914   The Cleveland Foundation was established.
  
              Countries around the world were plunged into World War I.
  
  1916   The Cleveland Museum of Art opened. 
  
  1918   The influenza epidemic killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. 
  
  1920   First regular commercial radio broadcasts began. 
  
  1925   With Western Reserve University, Case established Cleveland College, a pioneering effort
               in adult education.
  
               First general campaign for funds raised over $1,600,000.
  
               The Cleveland airport opened. 
  
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  Regional Population
  
                                       1900             1930                  
  Cleveland                   381,768          900,429
  Cuyahoga County     439,120        1,201,455                                                
  
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  Caution should be taken when comparing financial data across long periods of time. Accounting practices have changed substantially during CWRU's nearly 200-year history. In compiling these numbers, we have relied on the most authoritative contemporaneous sources available.
  
  Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, March 2007.

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