University of Cincinnati - Cincinnatian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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fflfistory of the Knivcrsity ' of Cincinnati HARLES MCMICKEN, at the time of his death in , 1858, bequeathed to the city of Cincinnati almost the whole of his estate, valued at 51,000,000, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining two colleges for the education of white boys and girls. In 1870 the General Assembly of Ohio, in order to unite the various educational trusts in Cincinnati, passed an act to aid and promote education. It was through this, almost a year later, that the University of Cincinnati was founded. Students were nrst received in 1873, and in 1874 the Academic Department, now the NlcMicken 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. S l

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N 1896 the Medical College of Ohio Cfounded in ' 18195 became the Medical Department of the University. Since its organization in 1887, the Clinical and Pathological School of the Cincinnati Hospital has been afhliated with the University, being designated as the Medical Department until 1896 and afterwards as the Department of Clinical Medicine. In J une, 1908, an invitation was extended by the Board of Directors of the University of Cincinnati to the Miami Medical College to become a department of the University for the academic year 1908-09. This arrangement was pre- liminary to the merging of the Miami Medical College of Ohio in June, 1909, which resulted in a single medical depart- ment-one of the best in the United States-with the title of The Ohio-Miami Medical College of the University of Cincinnati. ge twenty-one