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UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

 

 

exhibit title: Our Presidents

 

Charles S. Howe
(9/29/1858-4/18/1939)

Secretary of the Faculty, Case School of Applied Science, 6/4/1902-11/2/1902

Acting President, Case School of Applied Science, 11/3/1902-5/31/1903

President, Case School of Applied Science, 6/1/1903-Summer 1929

Education

B.S., Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1878, Chemistry

Ph.D., College of Wooster, 1887

 

 

University Awards

Western Reserve University awarded Howe the honorary Doctor of Laws, 1924.

Case School of Applied Science awarded Howe the honorary Doctor of Engineering, 1929.

Case Western Reserve University dedicated one of the men’s south side residences Charles S. Howe House to “honor the memory of the second president of Case, an outstanding mathematician and astronomer,” 1969.


 

Career

Principal, High School in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Fall 1879

Principal, Albuquerque Academy, New Mexico, 1879-1881

Assayer for prospectors, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1881-1882

Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, 1883-1889

Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Case School of Applied Science, 1889-1902

Kerr Professor of Mathematics, Case School of Applied Science, 1890-1908

President Emeritus, Case School of Applied Science, 1929-1939


 

University Numbers
  1902/03 1928/29
Enrollment 426 679
Number of faculty 27 67
Tuition per year $100 $250

 


 

Milestones
 
1902
Albert Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity was published.
The 5-year joint course with Adelbert College, the undergraduate men’s college of Western Reserve University, was established. The first students of the combined course entered Case in 1906.
1903
 

 

1914
The Cleveland Foundation was established.

 

Countries around the world were plunged into World War I.
 
1916
The Cleveland Museum of Art opened.
 
1918
The influenza epidemic killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide.
 
1920
First regular commercial radio broadcasts began.
With Western Reserve University, Case established Cleveland College, a pioneering effort in adult education.
1925
The Cleveland airport opened.
First general campaign for funds raised over $1,600,000.

 

 


 

Regional Population
  1900 1930
Cleveland 381,768 900,429
Cuyahoga County 439,120 1,201,455


Caution should be taken when comparing financial data across long periods of time. Accounting practices have changed substantially during CWRU's nearly 200-year history. In compiling these numbers, we have relied on the most authoritative contemporaneous sources available.

Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, March 2007.