Tag Archives: Chicago-Kent history
Looking Back at Chicago-Kent Stories
As another year winds to a close, now is a good time to reflect on our accomplishments in 2015. After Chicago-Kent celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2013, 2015 was the year for our parent institution, Illinois Institute of Technology, to … Continue reading
Finery and Progress: Chicago-Kent’s Best Businesswoman
On a hot day at the end of July, 1921, Mrs. Alice Rosseter-Willard hurried to the home of her friend. There, on a couch in a secluded corner of a sleeping porch, lay Bertha Baur, newly widowed. Alice approached and … Continue reading
The Kent Connection
In the spring of 1892, at the end of the school year, Professor Marshall Davis Ewell wrote a letter of resignation from the Union College of Law in Chicago, where he had been Professor of Common Law for fifteen years. … Continue reading
Life’s a Beach: Chicago-Kent’s Author, Outdoorsman, Olympian
The day was hot, and Henry Walter Beach took a moment to stop his fall plowing and rest his knee, which seized and stiffened in the heat. He removed his soft brown hat and the piece of cotton he kept beneath it, … Continue reading
A Million from Make-Believe: Chicago-Kent’s Costumologist
Wanted: Strong, healthy girl who can teach German to two boys, take care of a bedridden elderly woman, and sew for the household. Wages: $3 per week. On December 19, 1886, a twenty-year-old Wilhelmine Friederike Moscherosch stepped off the passenger … Continue reading
High Adventure: Chicago-Kent’s World Traveler
The end of summer 1916 was a fine and peaceful introduction to the oncoming fall weather. The hot days of July were cooling to an agreeable 78 degrees in the August afternoon, and while corn farmers struggled with poor returns … Continue reading
The Land of Books
On October 28, 1929, a $10 million dollar bond for the Chicago World’s Fair was issued. The following day, the stock market crashed, bringing the Roaring Twenties to a shuddering halt, and plunging America into the depths of the Great … Continue reading
