University of Cincinnati - Cincinnatian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Interesting Facts About the University of Cincinnati Area of campus — 56 acres. Number of buildings — 13. Value of land, buildings and equipment — $1,750,000. Number of books— 121,000. Value of books— $160,000. Endowments— $880, 109. Income from endowments — $68,055. Other income — gifts, city, tuition, fees — $353,414. Departments — Graduate School, College of Liberal Arts, College of Teachers, College of Engineering, College of Medicine, College of Commerce, School of Household Arts, Evening Session. Courses — 15. Faculty — Professors, 54; Associate Professors, 27; Assistant Professors, 48 ; Instructors, 111; Lecturers, 16; Total, 256. Estimated number of students — 3,093. First graduating class — College of Medicine, 1819; Colleges of Liberal Arts and Engineering, 1877. Total number of degrees granted — 10,281. [page twenty-four]

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M giii n mi ADMINISTRATION [page twenty-three]

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The Progress of the University THE histor} ' of the University of Cincinnati is the history of an institution which has achieved unusually rapid and extensive progress. Growing out of the generous and social-spirited dream of Charles McMicken, and attracting unto itself some of the pioneer educational centers of the com- munity, it has increased in size, accomplishment, and influence, until it now enjoys the fame of the greatest municipal university of the world. Other cities are emulating Cincinnati ' s achievement but have not as yet equalled or surpassed it. It is significant that the only state whose code expressly permits cities to establish municipal universities and levy a special tax for the purpose is Ohio. The University of Cincinnati was immediately incorporated upon the passage, by the General Assembly of the state in 1870, of the act enabling cities to aid and promote education. An interesting, if less idealistic phase of such legis- lation, is the authorization by the state legislature, in 1807, of a lottery to endow an educational institution. Some tickets were sold, but the lottery did not materialize. Seven years after this unsuccessful effort, in 1814, a small group of citizens organized and established the Cincinnati-Lancaster Seminary upon the site of the present Mercantile Library Building. It was re-organized in the early thirties and the Medical and Law Schools were affiliated. The building burned in 1845 and the Law School alone survived. The Cincinnati Law School, founded in 1833, was the fourth institution of its kind in the country, those of Harvard, Yale, and the University of Virginia, alone preceding it. The will of Charles McMicken, who died in 1858, provided that the bulk of his estate, which was valued at about $1,000,000, be used to found two colleges for the education of white girls and boys. Almost one-half of the property was lost in 1860 by decision of the Supreme Court, and the remainder, insufficient for the organization of two colleges, was devoted during the next ten years to the increase of the McMicken Fund. In 1870 the University of Cincinnati was incorporated as has been mentioned, and the city issued its first University bonds in 1875. Instruction had been begun in 1874 on Franklin Street, with a small faculty of Woodward High School teachers. The first University building was that upon the site of the old McMicken homestead on Clifton Avenue. This same building has until recently been occupied by the Medical College. The next great step in the expansion of this institution was the removal to McMicken Hall in 1895, [page twenty-five]