Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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Board of Administrators. Charles Erasmus Fenner, B.L., LL.D President. James McConnell, B.L., First Vice-President. Robert Miller Walmsley. Second Vice-President. Edgar Howard Farear, M.A., Benjamin Morgan Palmer, D.D., LL.D. Walter Robinson Stauffer, Henry Ginder, JOHN Baptist Levert, Joseph Chandler Morris. ASHTON PHELPS. George Quint ard Whitney, Charles Janvier, AValker Beainerd Spencer, A.B., B.L., Beverley Ellison Warner. A.M.. D.D.. Walter Denis Denegre, A.B., B.L., John Dymond. Jr., A.B., B.L. Ex -Officio. William Wright Heard Governor of Louisiana. PAUL CAPDEVIELLE, Mavor of New Orleans. Joseph V. Calhoun, . State Superintendent of Public Education.

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riEcl out. H. ' s long experience as a teacher of both sexes peculiarly fitted him tor the Important position to which he was destined to be called — the presidency of the Newcomb College. When, in 1S87. he was invited by the Board of Administrators of the Tulaue University of Louisiana to take up the task of the organization of the colle.ee fo;- young women that was to be established on the Newcomb foundation. Pi-ofessor Dixon was loath to leave his v. ' ork in St. Louis, where his interest had become cen- tered in the building up of his High School to an even higher grade, and whore he had drawn up the plans for the magnificent high-school building which has since been erected. The work to be done in New Orleans appealed to those high ideals which characterize the man, however, and with an ambition to give to the South something which it did not then possess — a real woman ' s college — he reluc- tantly gave up the home of his boyhood and young manhood and cast his lot with the men and women of the Crescent City. He came among us a stranger — nov.- few men in cur city are better known. Mr. Dixcn s ability as an organizer and executive were conspicuous from the very beginning of his work here. With that infinite capacity for taking pains which has been defined as genius, he elaborated the details of his plan as rapidly as means and time would allow. His clear-sighted vision of what the Newcomb should become doubtless did much to give to Mrs. Newcomb a fuller and larger conception of the possibilities of her memorial than she would otherwise have reached, and gave her the restful assurance that her college was in the right hands. With such confidence, she did not hesitate to richly endow it. thus earning the lasting gratitude of every true friend of education in our section. Mr. Dixon ' s activity has, however, not been limited to the Newcomb College, important as his work there, has been. In the church, in the service of the city on the Civil Service Commission, as Professor of Philosophy in the University, as well as in the various scientific, philosophical, and social organizations of which he has teen a leading member, he has demonstrated the all-around character of his ability nnd culture. He is a clear and forceful speaker, and has done much good work at educational and other meetings. He is an exceptionally fine chess-player and an intelligent amateur in art and music. His social qualities and uniform courtesy and kindness of heart have endeared him to all with whom his relations have been at all close. Seme years since the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by the Southwestern Presbyterian University in recognition of his distinguished services to the cause of Southern education. What has already been accomplished by Doctor Dixon, however, is but an earn- est of what we are to expect in the future. With the perfect confidence in his judgment and fidelity shown throughout the years of their acquaintanceship, Mrs. Newcomb made him one of the executors of her estate. When the finaJ settlement of this is completed and his mind is free to return to his educational problems, we may expect to see in the Newcomb a most splendid development. He is not satis- fied to claim it as the best in the South, but aspires to have it take front rank among the great women ' s colleges of the world. As such, it will help mightily in the making of the Greater Tulane.

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Officers of Instruction and Administration. EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN, D.C.L., LL.D., President. 528 Walnut Street. BROWN AYRES, B.Sc, Ph.D., Vicc-Chairman of the Faculty, Dean of the Academic Colleges, and Professor of Physics and Astronomy. 4206 St. Charles Avenue. (In the order of election.) STANFORD EMERSON CHAILLE. A.M.. M.D., LL.D., Dean of the Medical Depart- ment, and Professor of Physiology, Hygiene, and Pathological Anatomy. 145 S. Rampart Street. ERNEST SYDNEY LEWIS, M.D., Professor of General and Clinical Obstetrics and Dissases of Women and Children. S29 St. Charles Street. JOHN BARNWELL ELLIOTT, A.B., M.D., Ph.D., Professor of the Theory and Prac- tice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine. 2427 Camp Street. JOHN HANNO DBILER (Graduate Royal Normal College of Miinchen-Freising), Professor of German Language and Literature. 2229 Bienville Avenue. ALCEE FORTIER, D.Lt., Professor of Romance Languages. 1241 Esplanade Avenue. ROBERT SHARP, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of English. 7325 St. Charles Avenue. EDMOND SOUCHON, M.D., Professor of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery. 2403 St. Charles Avenue. JOHN MORSE ORDWAY, A.M., Professor of Biology (Newcomb College). 3125 Chestnut Street. WILLIAM WOODWARD (Graduate Mass. Normal Art School), Professor of Draw- ing and Painting (Newcnmb College). 7321 Felicia Street. HENRY DENIS. B.L., Professor of Civil Law and Lecturer on the Land Laws of the United States. 1020 Esplanade Avenue. JOHN ROSE FICKLEN, B.Let., Professor of History and Political Science. 2325 Camp Street. JOHN WILLIAMSON CALDWELL, A.M., M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Geology. 1718 Palmer Avenue. ELLSWORTH WOODWARD (Graduate Rhode Island School of Design). Professor of Drawing and Painting, and Director of Art Instruction (Newcomb College). 2703 Camp Street. BRANDT VAN BLARCOM DIXON, A.M., LL.D., President of Newcomb College, and Professor of Philosophy. 1730 Palmer Avenue. JANE CALDWELL NIXON, Professor of English and Rhetoric (Newcomb College). 1410 Third Street. EVELYN WALTON ORDWAY, B.S., Professor of Chemistry (Newcomb College). 3125 Chestnut Street. MARIE AUGUSTIN, Professor of French (Newcomb College). 1304 Eighth Street. FRANK ADAIR MONROE, Professor of Commercial Law and the Law of Cor- porations. 847 Carondelet Stre ' t. HARRY HINCKLEY HALL, B.L., Dean of the Law Department, and Professor of Criminal Law, the Law of Evidence and of Practice under the Code of Pr.-ic- tice of Louisiana. 1410 Second Street. MARY LEAL HARKNESS, A.M., Ph.D.. Professor of Latin (Newcomb College). 1448 Fourth Street. JAMES HARDY DILLARD, M.A., B.L., D.Lt., Professor of Latin. 571 Audubon Street. AVILLIAM BENJAMIN SMITH. A.M., Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics. 62S State Street. LOUIS FAVROT REYNAUD, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica. Therapeutics, and Clinical Medicine. 1238 Josephine Str?et. 14