Case School of Applied Science - Differential Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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THE sToRY oF CASE The history of our Alma Mater compasses only a short period of years. but this renders more remarkable the wonderful things she has achieved in so brief a time. ln but thirty-six years the growth has been from sixteen students to six hundred, and from a single building, the Case homestead, which was poorly fitted for the carrying on of instruction, to six buildings splendidly equipped for the study of various forms of engineering and an additional building furnished to meet every demand of club-house and gymnasium. It was in 1881 that the Case School of Applied Science became a reality after years of planning on the part of Mr. Leonard Case. its generous folunder. For years Mr. Case had cherished his plan for the establishment of a scientific school in Cleveland and with this in view, on the twenty-fourth of February. 1877, he executed a trust deed setting apart certain lands to establish and endow the school. ln order that he might escape the notoriety that would naturally be caused by his benevolence it known, the founder specified that these deeds should be kept secret until after his death, which occurred in 1880. ln the fall of 1881 instruction was begun in the old Case homestead. which stood on Rockwell Street near Superior Avenue. just north of the present post- office. VVhi1e the building was but poorly suited for collegiate purposes. it, along with the stable, furnished ample room for the sixteen students and five instruc- tors, who composed the first student body and faculty. The basement and the first fioor were equipped with physics laboratories. while chemistry occupied the brick stable. Civil engineering was taught on the second floor of the homestead. The first commencement was held in this building in 1885. when a class of five students was graduated. The land on which the school now stands was donated by certain other citizens of Cleveland. lVork was begun on what is the present main building in 1883. At the time of erection it was stated by the trustees that this building was so planned and constructed as to afford protection against nre and ample room to accommodate the school for many years. How mistaken their ideas were we shall see later. As the school was still of a diminutive, it was deemed wise to complete only the south wing of this building for the present, and, as the demand for room increased. the other parts would be finished. Vllork was about finished on this part, when one night a car, which had been standing on an auxiliary track of the Nickel Plate railroad leading to the building, was turned loose either accidentally or for a prank. Gathering momentum as it coasted down the grade, it jumped the end of the track and crashed into the building causing great damage. ln consequence, it could not be occupied until the fall ot 1885. At the opening of the fall term of that year the student body numbered fifty- one. These men were amply accommodated in the one wing of the main building. which contained three departments, Physics, Chemistry and Civil Engineering. The Physics department occupied the first tloor and basementg Civil Engineering and Chemistry, the third door. All departments were well equipped, especially that of Physics, in charge of Professor Nickleson, who had gone to Europe the previous summer and purchased the very best of apparatus to the value of 325.000, ln 1885 Mr: Cady Staley, then a civil engineer of great prominence and dean of the Engineering department of Union College, was elected bv the trustees 10

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s the frrst presrdent of Case lle had assumed the duties of thrs office but three xx eeks xx hen on the nroht of October 1! 1886 fire broke out rn the burldrno and desprte the supposedly fue proof constructron demolrshed the completed portron alone xxrth all the xaluable apparatus The loss aggrevated about 65130 OOO At thrs trme rt appeared that the xvhole project must be abandoned for the trrne bemg as 1t seemed rmpossrble to even thrnk of confluctrnff school xx 1tl'l nerther burldrng nor apparatus Western Reserve Unrversrty hoxx ever came to the rescue xvrth an offer of the use of the north part of Adelbert Hall Thrs generous favor was accepted and school was resumed on the folloxvrnff Nlondax X frame burldmg was erected between the marn burldrng and the srte of the present chemrstry burldrng for use as a temporary chernrcal laboratory In 1888 the school affarn occupred the partrally reconstructed marn burldrng xx hrch xx as once more equrpped xx rth physrcs laboratorres In 1890 xx hen the errtrre burldrng was completed mechanrcal laboratorres xvere establrshed rn the basement Thrs marked the rntroductron of the course rn Nlechanrcal lingrneer rnsf rn the currrculum Groxxth xx as so raprd durmo thrs perrod that rt xvas soon found necessarx to provrde more room for the Departments of Chernrcal and Mechanrcal En grneerrno Work xx as rmmedrately bevun on txvo addrtronal burldmofs These xx ere completed rn 1897 and then respectlve departments moved lnto the burld rngs, whrch they noxx occupx The rncreasrno rmportance of electrrcrty made necessary the drfferentratron of lilectrrcal llngrneerrnff from the Physrcs Department xvrth the result that the lilectrrcrty Burldrno xvas constructed and equrppel rn 1896 Py 19Oa Physrcs had so expanded as to requrre the entrre basement and hrst floor of the Maur lrurldrng xvhrle Nrnrno had cutgroxxn rts foster department Chernrstry so as to nexx burldrngs one for the Department of Play srcs and one for the Department ot Nlrnrng were lurlt and furnrshed rn 1906 lhe school xxas noxv splendrdly provrcled for all of the purposes of study but totallx lacked a place for recreatron and socral rntercourse Thrs need xxas sup plred thru the purchase rn 1914 of the old Presbyterran Church on lfast lO!th Qtreet near Umversrty Crrcle xx rth the funds accumulated by the Case Xthletrc Assocratrcn under the able management of Professor Tlrank R 1 an llorn Thrs edrflce xx as remodeled so as to afford all that could be desrred rn the xx ax of a clubhouse and gymnasrum Thrs necessrty has proved a valuable as xx ell as a popular addrtron to the school lt has provrded a place xvhere the students can meet one another rn a way that wx as rmpossrble before and serves to promote rn a larger degree frrendshrp among the students 'Wrthrn the past vear the 1Varner ant' Swasey Cornpanv of Clexeland the desrgners and constructors of the lrck and Yerkes telescopes have Oenerouslx offered to burld and equrp an observatory for the school Tbrs xxrll make possrble a much more complete course rn astronomy rn connectron wrth crvrl engrneerrng lt rs expected that the constructron xx rll beorn at an early date rra the future So much for Case s materral and extensrve development Great as rt has been ex en more mrght be sarcl of her rntensrve development as rn the short perrod of her exrstence Case has rrsen to the foremost rank amono screntrfrc schools ller proressors and alumnr have won for her a prestrge among men and rnstrtutrons of scrence X et there are tlarngs strll to le desrred and Goals strll to be attarned 1 et everx student do hrs utmost for the achrevement of a Greater Case 21 ' ' T. . T cf . I' NA 1 , 5 , ' r . ' 1 S . . , 7 ' ' 1 , . . ' c D 'V' c rc . c ' T. r C Oc c s - . . I .1 . N . . I T 6 ' I' , 'c . V T ' A , 'V is I ' 1 ' ' - - L D T - - A 1 - ' ' '7 ,, ' - lc ' . . 'V . .4 A ' 'C , I C - 1 - l A - . D .. , U n 6. . Q . 5 . . BT. . ,r - -I C ' ' N ' - Y ' 7 I . . - 6 . - -1 1 r ' - 6' ' X Q . 3 . 9 C , xr C. 1 T 1 s I . Y Y. 1 A b X . , ' demand rncreased space. Thru the generosrty of Mr. -lohn D, Rockefeller txvo 7 . U . , A ' . 7. I c . l T N rf 3 r . ' ' . '. . I l n M . K A . 4 A - 5 1 1 - . A. 7 . 3 J. fc F . . . n A 4 in 7 v 1' ly T s C T J.. . Y -Y - C 9 ' ' ' . . . ' c c .1 ' c r ' l J C - f - A , r H - f i ,T f. ' T' ' ' 1 ' , . ' cf F., c -l , 1' .,' , ' 5 I , , 7 ' ' , c ' . ' , c. ' C ' '. A I . .. 1 , . ' - - l .c 6 1 . I f. . , N . C ' C ,Y - - -K 3 ' c . . e c . 1 - '47 - . ' r ' ' c ,N . 12