University of Cincinnati Record (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... the University) have recently been united into a single medical department, known as "The Ohio-Miami Medical College of the University of Cincinnati." In 1896 a Law Department was established, and six professors of law were appointed, who gave instruction at first in rooms on Fourth Street. But, in 1897, by a contract with the Law School of the Cincinnati College (founded in 1833), a union was effected. The College of Law of the University was to be known as the Cincinnati Law School, and the degree 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 College of Liberal Arts has developed the College of Engineering. It was organized under that name in 1900, and became a distinct department in 1904. Since its organization. In 1S87, the Clinical and Pathological School of the Cincinnati Hospital has been affiliated with the University, being designated as the Medical Department, until 1896, and afterwards as the Department of Clinical Medicine. The College for Teachers was organized In 1905, in cooperation with the Board of Education of the City of Cincinnati. In 1906 the Graduate School was separated from the McMlcken College of Liberal Arts and a distinct organization with a dean at its head For this purpose the city levies annually a special tax of one-twentieth of one mill. effected. In the same year the General Assembly of Ohio authorized the levying of an increased municipal tax for the University--five-tenths of a mill, instead of three-tenths as before. BUILDINGS AND SITE. From 1875 to 1895 the Academic Department occupied the building erected on the grounds of the McMicken homestead, as lequ...