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1880
The Case School of Applied Science was incorporated. Leonard Case, Jr. (pictured here) had set up a trust to establish the School. |
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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. |
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1882
Western Reserve University welcomed undergraduates to the "First Academical Term" in its new University Circle home. |
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1883
The Medicine faculty voted that the diplomas should hereafter be in English. Earlier diplomas had been in Latin. |
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1884
Zeta Psi was established. It was the first fraternity at Case School of Applied Science. |
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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. |
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1886
Cady Staley was elected the first President of Case School of Applied Science. |
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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. |
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1888
Hiram C. Haydn was inaugurated as Western Reserve University's fifth president. |
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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. |
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