Western Reserve
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Western Reserve. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
a portion of the Northwest Territory reserved by the State of Connecticut. It is known also as Connecticut Reserve. Connecticut ceded all claim to western sovereignty to the general government, but retained property ownership in a tract in northeastern Ohio. The reserve extended along the southern shore of Lake Erie for 100 miles westward from the Pennsylvania line, and ran from the 41st parallel of latitude northward to the lake. In 1795-6 Connecticut sold these lands, save 500,000 acres, to the Connecticut Land Company which promoted settlements. An industrious population flowed in, chiefly from New England . Thirteen counties were formed in whole or in part from the territory of the Reserve. Cleveland is the largest city. The designation, "Western Reserve," has been perpetuated by the university of that name located at Cleveland. The money received from the sale of lands was invested by Connecticut in a school fund. The interest is used in maintaining public instruction. Lower Falls, Spokane, Washington. Western scenes Lake Pend d'Oreille, Idaho. Western scenes
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THE, a tract of land in the N. E. of what is now the State of Ohio, once forming part of the claims of Connecticut in the Northwest Territory. When, by the treaty of 1783, Great Britain relinquished the territory S. of the Great Lakes and E. of the Mississippi, disputes arose among the States of Virginia, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut as to the right of occupancy in that locality. The difficulty was finally settled by the cession of the whole to the Federal Government, tract of but Connecticut reserved a nearly 4,000,000 acres on Lake Erie. The State finally disposed of this in small lots to colonists, and so accumulated a very large school fund. SITY, a coeducational non-sectarian institution in Cleveland, O.; founded in 1826; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 369; students, 2,787; volumes in the library, 134,000; funds, $4,074,039; president, productive fun Charles F. Thwing, D. D.