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• 1 2020-01-30T16:08:26+00:00 200 Events in 200 Years: 1880s 20 This section provides detailed information about the university from 1880-1889 plain 2025-04-21T12:36:44+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.
  
  
   
• 1 2022-03-02T19:50:02+00:00 Cady Staley 10 plain 2022-07-14T17:03:24+00:00
  Cady Staley 
  (12/12/1840-6/27/1928)
  
  President, Case School of Applied Science, 9/1/1886-6/5/1902
  
  Education
  
  B.A., Union College, 1865
  
  C.E., Union College, 1866, Civil Engineering
  
  Ph.D., Union College, 1886

  
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  University Awards 

  Western Reserve University awarded Staley the honorary Doctor of Laws, 1901.

  The Cady Staley Fund, established by Staley, funded loans to students and supported the Cady Staley Prize, given to the freshman with the highest record for the year, 1902.

  Case Western Reserve University dedicated one of the men’s south side residences the Cady Staley House to honor Staley as “an engineer of repute, he carried on a tradition…of encouraging appreciation of the humanities in men of scientific bent,” 1969.

  
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  Career

  Wagon train driver and Prospector, 1866

  Civil Engineer, Central Pacific Railroad, 1866-1867

  Instructor in Civil Engineering, Union College, Schenectady, New York, 1867-1868

  Professor of Civil Engineering, Union College, 1868-1876

  Dean of the Faculty, Union College, 1876-1886

  Professor of Civil Engineering, Case School of Applied Science, 1886-1902

  Professor of Political Economy, Case School of Applied Science, 1907-1914

  Professor of Economics, Case School of Applied Science, 1915-1920

  
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  University Numbers
  
                                               1886/87             1901/02
  Enrollment                               44                            353
  Number of faculty                    8                              27
  Tuition per year                    $75                          $100
  
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  Milestones (non-university-related events are in italics)
  
  1887   Mechanical, electrical, and mining engineering began as separate programs.
  
  1898   The United States fought the Kingdom of Spain in the Spanish-American War.
  
  1899   Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams was published.
  
  1902   Willis Carrier invented the modern air conditioning system.
  
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  Regional Population
  
                                       1890             1900                  
  Cleveland                   261,353          381,768
  Cuyahoga County    309,970          439,120                                                
  
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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.

• 1 2022-06-15T19:59:35+00:00 Cady Staley Picture Gallery 2 Pictures of Cady Staley plain 2022-06-15T20:32:59+00:00