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• 1 2020-01-30T16:08:26+00:00 1900-1909 13 This section for 200 Events in 200 Years provides highlights of the university's history from 1900-1909. plain 2025-06-26T15:27:33+00:00 1900 1900
  Tree Day was an annual event held at the College for Women for many years. It was special for the sophomores, who presented a play, after which they planted their tree and sang their class song. The freshmen attended the play in fancy costume.
  
  
  1901
  The Case School of Applied Science musical clubs (including the Mandolin Club, Glee Club, and Banjo Club) played 7 concert dates at various locations around northeast Ohio for the benefit of the Athletic Association.
  
  
  1902
  Dedication ceremonies were held for Harkness Chapel, Western Reserve University's first chapel building. Daily services began at 9:15 a.m. and all College for Women students were expected to attend.
  
  
  1903
  First classes were held by Western Reserve University's School of Library Science. Pictured here is William H. Brett, first dean of the School, conducting one of the first classes.
  
  
  1904
  Charles S. Howe was inaugurated as Case School of Applied Science's second president.
  
  
  1905
  Adelbert College Step Ceremony was once again held on the steps of Adelbert Main (now Adelbert Hall). The junior class made speeches and passed the mace of authority to the sophomore class. Wrestling matches between freshmen and sophomores followed in the gym.
  
  
  1906
  Besides the varsity team, Case School of Applied Science had class, fraternity, and faculty baseball teams which played each other and local high schools. Pictured is the faculty baseball team.
  
  
  1907
  Since many Case and Western Reserve University students were commuters, transportation was a daily issue. At a time when automobiles were uncommon, many students rode streetcars to and from the campus every day. University Circle received its name from the streetcar turn-around on Euclid Avenue.
  
  
  1908
  Western Reserve University students held their first mock political convention at Gray's Armory. The convention nominated Senator Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin for U.S. president.
  
  
  1909
  Beta Eta of Sigma Chi became the first joint Case School of Applied Science - Western Reserve University fraternity chapter.
  
  
• 1 2026-03-31T14:57:54+00:00 1908: Mock Conventions 10 Campaigning at CWRU: Presidential Elections, 1908: Mock Conventions plain 2026-04-23T19:53:02+00:00 1908 Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, September 2004. 1908

  A recurring element of student political activity was the spring mock political convention, in which students mimicked the (pre-primary) work of the party conventions of drafting platforms and selecting nominees. The WRU student choice for the Republican Party nominee in 1908 was Robert LaFollette, Wisconsin Senator. The students’ choice was not echoed by the delegates to the Republican Party convention, who selected William H. Taft.
  
  This first mock political convention held by either Case or WRU nominated Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin for president.
  
  
  The Republican Party continued its previous support on the WRU campus with the resurrection of the Republican Club.
   

   
   

  Ohio Popular Vote	National Popular Vote	Electoral Vote
  William H. Taft (R) 572,312 (51%) William J. Bryan (D) 502,721 (44.8%) Eugene V. Debs (Socialist) 33,795 (3%) Eugene W. Chafin (Prohibition) 11,402 (1%) August Gilhaus (Socialist Labor) 721 (0.1%) Thomas L. Hisgen (Independence) 439 Thomas Edward Watson (People’s) 162	William H. Taft (R) 7,676,258 (51.58%) William J. Bryan (D) 6,406,801 (43.05%) Eugene V. Debs (Socialist) 420,380 (2.82%) Eugene W. Chafin (Prohibition) 252,821 (1.7%) Thomas L. Hisgen (Independence) 82,537 (0.55%) Thomas Edward Watson (People’s) 28,376 (0.19%) August Gilhaus (Socialist Labor) 14,018 (0.09%)	William H. Taft (R) 321 William J. Bryan (D) 162

   

  Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, September 2004.