University of Cincinnati - Cincinnatian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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CHARLES McMICKEN Founder

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COLLEGE OF LAW Historical Statement at the University of Cincinnati in 1896, but the following year a contract was made with the Law School of the Cin- cinnati College and a union was effected. The Law School of the Cincinnati College was founded in 1833, making the Universitys Law School of today her second oldest department, and the oldest law school in the United States west of the Alleghenies. It is a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools, and num- bers among its thirty-fwe hundred graduates many of the most distinguished and successful members of the bench and bar in the country. tpage nineteenjl

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McMICKEN COLLEGE of LIBERAL ARTS Historical Statement bequeathed to the City of Cincinnati almost the whole of his estate, valued at one million dollars, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining tttwo colleges for the education of white boys and girls? Nearly half of this property was in Louisiana, and was lost through a decision of the Supreme Court. For ten years the revenue derived from that part of the estate lying in Cincinnati and its vicinity was applied to the improvement of the college. In 1869 the Trustees provided for a School of Design. The following year the General Assembly of Ohio, in order to unite the various educational trusts in Cincinnati, passed an act 8to aid and promote education? It was through this, almost a year later, that the University of Cincinnati was founded. Students were first received in 1873, and in 1874 the Academic Depart- ment, now the McMicken College of Liberal Arts, was organized. At length the city undertook to support the University in part by public taxation, and in the course of time additional funds for the maintenance of the institution were provided by individual citizens. tpage twenty-one'l