Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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1 1 -K m % Tne President ' s Statement OLLOWING a statement by Tulane University of its need of a medical clinic building and of the estimated cost of such a building, the General Education Board has appropriated the sum requested, namely, $1,250,000, for the construction and equipment of this building. The new medical building will take care of all the work now con- ducted in the present Hutchinson Building on Canal street. It will pro- vide for the instruction of the third and fourth year medical students with the necessary classrooms and laboratories and will furnish a better distribution of space, as well as more adequate equipment for this work. The new building, however, is intended to do much more than this. In it will be operated out-patient clinics for the various medical branches. These clinics will be arranged and conducted for the purpose of teaching medical students the practical treatment of patients in preparation for their future work. The building will be erected on the property purchased recently by the University in the square adjacent to the Charity Hospital on Tulane Avenue. Plans are now being drawn up by the architects and it is hoped they will be completed at an early date. It will be necessary to conduct the clinic at first on a very small scale until the University is able to realize revenue from the Canal Street property to justify the enlarge- ment of the clinics to a full-time operation. H CP ' TT , TLvuo J ' President. ■¥ ,

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i i NEWCOMB COLLEGE Pierce Butler, B.A., M.A , Ph.D. Deaii Neivcomb College was founded by Mrs. Josephine Louise Newcomb, in October, 1896. It was her desire to establish in this college a memorial to her daughter, Harriet Sophie Newcomb. In her will, which is dated May 12, 1898, she left to the administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund, for the benefit of Newcomb College, the residue of her estate after the payment of certain specified legacies. Mrs. Newcomb ' s feeling for the people of New Orleans and her desire to advance the cause of education of young women in Louisiana were the reasons that moved her to make this founda- tion. It was her specific desire that there should be maintained a simple form of daily religious exercises in a chapel or assembly room, but she specifically pro- vided, I desire that worship and Instruction shall not be of a sectarian or denominational character. There are at piesent seven buildings of fine con- struction upon the campus, and several smaller build- ings. We have just completed a new dormitory, the Warren Newcomb House, fronting upon Audubon Place, which will probably form one unit in a plan of dormitories to be built. We are now building Dixon Hall, on the quadrangle fronting the Art Building, named in honor of President Emeritus B. . D. Dixon. Dixon Hall, ready for the session of 1929-1930, will provide an auditorium seating about one thousand, with a fine stage; studio and practice rooms for the School of Music; and accommodation for the Library. The purpose of the college is to foster the intellectual life in any way that may seem most helpful and promising for the maintenance of a high standard of culture, and it endeavors to equip young women for effective and intelligent service to society. The regular courses offered lead to the degree of B.A. or B.S., or for students in Art and Music, B. Design and B. Music. ■% -