Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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N U R Y R in 1866. His various services to the university continued over a period of thirty-three years. At his death in 1867, Randall Hunt, his brother, one of the founders of the Law Department, succeeded him. Then, in 1882, Paul Tulane donated for the education of the white youth of Louisiana his large holdings in real es- tate in New Orleans. Paul Tulane, born of French parents in Princeton, N. J., in 1801, saw the sons of Louisiana planters arriving in Louis- ville, Ky., to attend school there. It seemed a strange thing, he said afterward, and I re- membered it; and I had not lived long in Louisiana before I thought that I would like to see a good college built there where the boys could be educated at home. Mr. Tulane came to New Orleans in 1822. Possessing a remarkable business acumen, sound judgment and integrity, he soon laid the foundations of a handsome fortune. He moved back to New Jersey in 1873, having previously transferred part of his rapidly accumulating wealth there. Mr. Tulane made his donations to education in Louisiana through Gen. Randall Lee Gibson. He requested that Dr. T. G. Richardson, Judge Charles E. Fenner, Judge E. D. White and Mr. James McConnell, among others, be members of the board of administrators; that General Gibson be president of the board; that the university be non-sectarian but Christian; that the administrators secure the exemption of the property from taxation and keep it free of encumbrances. He thus left the proposed university unfettered by petty restrictions. His donations aggregated 1,050,000. As he died intestate in 1887, his intentions of adding to this sum were unfulfilled. Col. William Preston Johnston, president of Louisiana state University at Baton Rouge, was selected president of the proposed university. Instead of founding a new institution here, the administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund took THE TILTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY The central unit of Tulane ' s library facilities, Tilton is one of the better equipped and more efficiently run college libraries of the South. ■

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u A N U N R Y Ih ENIU P. FISHER ULANE UNIVERSITY today has a productive endow- ment of 10,055,419.76, an enrollment of over 4,000, arge faculties, a spacious campus with well equipped build- ings, and an international reputation. One hundred years ago, in September, 1834, it made its humble but honorable beginnings as the Medical College of Louisiana, with no definite income, eleven students, a faculty of eight, and no home except lecture rooms in the statehouse. The infant college ' s early growth was steady but not phe- nomenal. In 1836, it bestowed upon twelve students the first degrees in medicine ever conferred in the Southwest. Two years later, it began to issue degrees in pharmacy. In 1843, it moved into its first real home, a medical build- ing erected on Common Street between Baronne and Univer- sity Place. The students had access to Charity Hospital and the State Law Library. In 1875, the Law Department, with a faculty of four, and the Academic Department and a preparatory school, were or- ganized after the university had been chartered bv the state constitution in 1845. Dr. Thomas Hunt was dean of the first medical faculty and Dr. Francis Lister Hawks first president of the university. In 1850, Dr. Hawks was succeeded by Theodore Howard McCaleb and a building on the corner of Baronne and Com- mon, erected with a small appropriation from the State, was completed. A part of this building was leased and in turn sublet as ice-cream saloons and club rooms, with music, dancing, beer, and wine, and for other inappropriate purposes. This prac- tice was discontinued, however, as it became an intolerable nuisance and began to injure the reputation of the university. The university, closed during the Civil War, reop ened in 1865. The Academic Department was not reestablished until thirteen years later, after the state constitution promised sup- port up to 10,000.00 annually. Dr. Thomas Hunt, who. as dean of the first medical faculty, may be regarded as the founder of the university, was unanimously elected president Colonel William Ptes ' .on Johniton First President Tulane University

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u N U N R I T Y control of the existing univirsity and named it, in spite of its benefactor ' s modest protests, the Tulanc University of Louisi- ana. Thu s, in 1884, at its fiftieth birthday, the university en- tered upon a new era. As organized, it included Tulanc Col- lege ( ' the Academic Department), the Medical, Law and Phil- osophy (or Graduate) departments, and, until 1894, the Tu- lane High School. The H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial Col- lege for Young Women was added in 1887. Leaving the Law and Medical departments unchanged, the Board reorganized the Academic Department, which was still in a formative stage. This included five four-year courses, with the students having from eighteen to twenty-eight class periods a week. At the end of the 1893-94 session, it was subdivided into the College of Arts and Sciences, giving a lib- eral education in classical, literary and scientific courses, and into the College of Technology, devoted to scientific and me- chanical training. This latter offered courses in mechanical, electrical, chem- ical and civil engineering, and in architecture. Brown Ayres. who came as professor of physics and chemisrr in 1880. and John Ordway, director of the Manual Training School, really began engineering instruction in the L niversity on a practical basis. The Department of Philosophy, open to graduate students, conferred its first master ' s degrees in 1885 and its first doctor ' s degrees two years later. In 1889, for the first time in the professional schools of the university, women were admitted to the School of Pharmacy. The Richardson Memorial Medical Building was erected on Canal Street with a donation made bv Mrs. Ida Slocomb Richardson in 1891. This, after a new Richardson Memorial was built on the L ' ptown Campus, was renamed the Josephine Hutchinson Memorial Building, in appreciation of a bequest by Mr. Alexander Hutchinson. In 1886, Mrs. Josephine Louise Newcomb, nee LcMonnicr. the wife of a New Orleans sugar merchant, entrusted Col. Johnston with 100,000 for the establishment of the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in the Tulanc University of Louisiana, for the higher education of white girls and voung