University of Cincinnati - Cincinnatian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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maintenance of the institution were provided by in- dividual citizens, the most important being the be- quest of property.v valued at $130,000, by Matthew Thorns in 1890, and the gift of $100,000 by David Sinton in 1899. New departments were also added. In 187:3 the Cincinnati Astronomical Society Cfounded in 1842i transferred its property on Mt. Adams to the city, which agreed, as a condition of the gift, to sustain, in connection with the University, on :1 new site provided by John Kilgour, an Observa- tory? to be built with funds given by him. In 1896 the Medical College of Ohio tfounded in 1819i became the Medical Department of the UnL versity. though still retaining its original title con- jointly with its new one. In the same year a Law Department was established, and six professors of law were appointed, and gave instruction at first in rooms on Fourth street. But, in 1897, by a contract with the Law School of the Cincinnati College tfounded in 1833. a union was effected. The Law Department of the University was to be known as the Cincinnati Law School, and the de- gree of Bachelor of Laws was to be conferred by the concurrent action of the Board of Directors of the University and the Trustees of the Cincinnati College. Out of a professorship of Civil Engineering in the Academic Department deveinped the College of Engineering. It was organized under that name in 1900, and became a distinct department in 1904. Since its organization. in 1887, the Clinical and Pathological School of the Cincinnati Hospital has been affiliated with the University, being dese ignated as the Medical Department. until 1396, and afterwards as the Department of Clinical Medicine. The Ohio College of Dental Surgery tfounded in 18453 has been athliated with the University since 1888. BUILDI NUS AND SITE. From 1875 to 1895 the Academic Department 0c- eupied the building erected on the grounds of the McMicken homestead. as required by the will of the founder. This site proving altogether unsatis- factory, application was made to the courts for permission to remove to a more suitable location CINCINNATIAN, 190.5 in Bnrnet Woods Park. The desired permission having been granted by the court of last resort in March, 1893, steps were immediately taken for the construction of a main building, called Mc- Micken Hall, which was completed in two years. This building stands on high ground at the south- ern end of the park. forty-three acres having been set apart as a site for the University. During 1895-96 the north wing, known as Hanna Hall, was built for the departments of Chemistry and Engineering 5, with funds amounting to about $70.- 000, provided by Henry Hanna. The south wing, called Cunningham Hall, was built in 1898-99 by Briggs S. Cunningham, at a cost of $60,000. This wing is occupied by the departments of Physics and Biology. The Van Wormer Library, costing about $60,000, the gift of Asa Van VVCJI'mer3 was built during 1898-1900. A friend of technical education, whose name was not made knownJ gave the sum of $22,500, in 1901. to provide a building for the Technical School. The Observatory, built in 18723 with $10,000 given by John Kilgour, stands on Mt. Lookout. at a distance of several miles from the other Universityr buildings. A smaller lstructure, the O. M. Mitchel Builiing, was added in 1904 to house the old telescope. Since 1896 the building on the McMicken homestead site has been used by the Medical Department. A Dispensary, erected in that year. is situated on the lower part of the grounds. The Law Department. 011 Ninth Street, occupies a new building, which was completed in 1902. RENEFACTORS OF THE UNIVERSITY. Besides those whose names have already been mentioned. the following persons have contributed to the endowment or to the equipment of the Uni- versity: William A. Procter, Rev. Samuel J. Browne. XVilliam J. Odell. Julius Dexter, Frank J. Jones, Judge Moses F. Wilson, Eugene F. Bliss. Dr. James T. Whittaker. Mrs. William E. Merrill. Theodore A. Bruhl, Andrew Hiekenlooper, Chris, tian Moerlein, Laura Seasongood, Lewis Seasonh good, 5. Lilienthai, Mrs. Nannie Feehheimer, A. G. W'etherhy, Charles F. Windiseh, C. T. Webber. Rev. P. Robertson. the Lane and Bodley Company. the Alumni of the University and others, ' For this purpuse the city levies annually :1 special tax of nnwtnvntieth of one mill. T5

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University of cincinnati :5 I'3'r 639-33 $539 I! 2'. F d d 1870 A. D. 5-! Q wale- , nun e 1.3.9? a President. Charles William Dabney. LL. D. 6' Colora. Red and Black. YELL. Heigla, Heigla, Heigligan, Heigla, Heigla, I-la. Cincinnati Varsity, Rah I Q HISTORICAL STATEMENT. FOU N DATION . On his death, in 1858, Charles McMicken gave to the city of Cincinnati by will almost the whole of his estate, valued at about $1,000,000! for the purpose of establishing and maintaining tttwo c01- leges for the educatiOn of white boys and girls. He had long cherished the desire to found an institution where white boys and girls might be taught not only a knowledge of their duties to their Creator and their fellow men, but also receive the benefit of a sound, thorough and practical English education, and Such as might fit them for the active duties of life, as well as instruction in the higher branches of knowledge except cle- nominationul theology. t0 the extent that the same are now or may hereafter be taught in any of the secular colleges or universities of the highest grade in the country? Nearly half of the property devised by Mr. Mc- Micken was situated in the State of Louisiana. This was entirely lost, in 1860, by a decision of the Supreme Court of that State, ammlling that part of the devise. The court refused to recognize the validity of bequests of real estate to institutions controlled by non-resident trustees upon perpetual trusts. The remainder of the property. lying in Cincinnati and its vicinity. did not yield a suiticient income to warrant the establishment of the pro- Rah I Rah I M posed colleges. For ten years, therefore, the reve- nue derived from the estate was applied to its im- provement. In 1869 the trustees provided for a School of Design. which they maintained, with aid from Joseph Longworth, until 1884, when they trans- ferred it to the Cincinnati Museum Association. Meanwhile an attempt was made to unite the vari- ous educational trusts in Cincinnati. To this end, in 1870. the General Assembly of Ohio passed an act K'to aid and promote education, under which, almost a year later, the University Of Cincinnati was established. Bonds were soon issued by the city to provide funds for the erection of a suitable building. which was ready for use in the fall of 1875. But students Were received in 1873, and inf struction was given temporarily by the teachers of Woodward High School. In 1874 the Academic Department was organized by the appointment of three professors and two instructors who met classes during that year in a school building on Franklin street. The. chart to unite other trust funds with those given by Charles McMieken having failed, the in- Come remained long inadequate to the needs bf such an institution as he had intended to found. At length the City undertook to support the Uni- versity in part by public taxation, the tax for this purpose being limited to three-tenths Of one mill. In the course of time additional funds for the

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