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The History of the Tulane University of Louisiana m ULANE UNIVERSITY looks back for its beginning to the Medical College of Louisiana, which was organized in 1834 and chartered in the spring of 1835. It issued its first degree in March, 1836, the first degrees in Medicine or Science ever issued in Louisiana. Tulane Uni- versity, as it stands to-day represents the contract, giving to the Tulane Administrators perpetual control of the University of Louisiana, which the men, to whom Paul Tulane entrusted his donations, entered into with the State of Louisiana. In the opening of his letter to the Administrators, dated Princeton, May 2, 1882, he writes: A resident of New Orleans for many years of my active life, having formed many friendships and associations dear to me, and deeply sympathizing with its people in whatever misfortunes or disasters may have befallen them, as well as being sincerely desirous of contributing to their moral and int ellectual welfare, I do hereby express to you my intention by an act of donation jn(er vivos all the real estate I own and am possessed of in said city of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, for the promotion and encouragement of intellectual, moral and industrial education among the white young persons in the city of New Orleans, state of Louisiana, and for the advance- ment of learning and letters, the arts and sciences therein Mr. Tulane ' s first gift amounted in value to $363,000, and subsequent donations raised the total value of the real estate donated to $1,050,000, with an annual rental of $75,000. The results of other donations since the time of Mr. Tulane ' s generosity have been the Richardson Memorial Building, the Josephine Hutchinson Memorial Building, the F. W. Tilton Memorial Library, the endowment of the chair of Botany by Mrs. Ida A. Richardson, the donor of the fund with which the present Richardson Memorial Building was erected, and, very recently, the establishment of the Department of Tropi- cal Medicine, Hygiene and Preventative Medicine by means of a donation of $25,000 by the United Fruit Company, and the erection of a new engineering building, the Stanley Thomas Hall, made possible by a bequest of $60,000 by Stanley Thomas. The H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College was the result of a donation of $100,000 in October, 1886, by Mrs. Josephine Louise Newcomb to the Tulane Ad- ministrators for the establishment of a memorial of her only daughter. Newcomb College has since been the recipient of a bequest of F. Walker Calleander of $65,000. Under Article 320 of the Constitution of 1879, the Legislature of the State recog- (9)
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nized the three departments — Law, Medical and Academic — of the University and granted $ 1 0,000 annually until 1 884, when the Administrators of the Tulane Edu- cational Fund assumed the financial obligation of the state. During the course of three decades subsequent to 1 884, the Tulane University of Louisiana has reached its present proportions, when it comprises the Graduate Department, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Technology, the Teachers ' College, the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College for Young Women, the Law Department, the Departments of Medi- cine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, and the Post-Graduate Medical Department. The Uni- versity is also the possessor of a stadium and capacious grandstand, built with funds donated largely by the New Orleans Progressive Union, and of a large and thoroughly modern gymnasium. As we review the steady progress of Tulane University, we feel that Mr. Tulane ' s wish, as expressed in the close of his letter has been granted. His letter ended: With devout gratitude to our Heavenly Father for enabling us to form these plans, and invoking His divine blessings upon you (the Tulane Administrators) and your counsels (10)
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