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Western Reserve College, the college of the [[Connecticut Western Reserve]], was founded in 1826 in [[Hudson, Ohio]], as the [[Western Reserve Academy|Western Reserve College and Preparatory School]]. Western Reserve College, or "Reserve" as it was popularly called, was the first college in northern Ohio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://case.edu/about/history.html|title=Visiting Case: Case Western Reserve University|publisher=Case.edu|access-date=2015-09-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113172734/http://case.edu/about/history.html|archive-date=November 13, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> The school was called "Yale of the West"; its campus, now that of the [[Western Reserve Academy]], imitated that of Yale. It had the same motto, "Lux et Veritas" (Light and Truth), the same entrance standards, and almostnearly the same curriculum. It was different from Yale in that it was a [[manual labor college]], in which students were required to perform manual labor, seen as psychologically beneficial.<ref name=Sernett2004>{{cite book