Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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L u N U N I Y THE NEW GyMNASIUM Above: Photograph showing relative sizes of the old and new gymna- liumi. Below: Interior oF the new structure. This building, dedicated In November, ii Tulane ' s newest and most modern.

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N U R Y O R O R women. This was intended as a memorial for her only child, Harriott Sophie, who had died in her sixteenth year. Mrs. Newcomb increased the endowment to more than 3,500,000. She requested that the college be non-sectarian but Christian, that daily chapel services be held, and that the education be practical as well as literary. Dr. Brandt V. B. Dixon was chosen president. Among the vivid personalities of the early days of the College was Mrs. Jennie C. NLxon, professor of English. Newcomb, first situated at Camp and Howard Avenue, was moved in 1891 to 1220 Washington Avenue. The resi- dence on the grounds was enlarged and changed; the Josephine Louise dormitory, a science building, and an art building with a kiln for burning pottery were added. Each resident student was required to furnish her own napkins, towels, mosquito bar, and bedding. Newcomb pottery was developed at the instigation of Mr. Ellsworth Woodward, professor of drawing from 1887 on, who had previously taught drawing at Tulane. He was ap- pointed director of the Art School in 1909, serving until 1931. Science and art, particularly the latter, were stressed as much as languages. The courses led to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, which entitled the graduates to enter Tulane Univer- sity on the same footing as the men. Physical education was included in the curriculum, and a high school was organized. The library consisted of carefullv selected standard works of the Elsie Dinsmore type. At the close of the 1893-94 session, the Tulane colleges of Arts and Sciences and of Technology were moved uptown, opposite Audubon Park. Upon the new campus were erected Gibson Hall, the Richardson Chemistry Building, and build- ings for physics and engineering. Soon afterward the aca- demic dormitory and the refectory were built, and the Tulane Museum was installed in Gibson Hall. During the 1902-03 session, Tulane Hall, which occupied the site of the Roosevelt Hotel, was sold to the Grunewald in- terests. In 1912, Stanley Thomas Hall, an engineering build- ing, named m honor of its donor, was erected, and in 1924, the Science Building was opened. In September, 1900, after William Oscar Rogers had been acting president of the University for a year, Edwin Anderson Alderman, of Wilmington, N. C. became president. In 1904, Dr. Alderman resigned and was succeeded by Dr. Edwin Boone Craighead, president of the Missouri State Nor- General Randall Lee Gibson First President of the Tulane Board of Administrators

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N U R PROGRESS mal. James H. Dillard, professor of Latin and dean of the Graduate Department, acted as president in the interim. At Dr. Craighead ' s suggestion, the students aboHshed haz- ing and substituted a tug-of-war across a pond in Audubon Park. In the first hotly contested struggle, victory was awarded the sophomores on points. In the 1906-07 session, the New Orleans Polyclinic was amalgamated with Tulane as the Post-Graduate School of Medicine, with Dr. Charles Chassaignac as dean. The Poly- clinic, established in 1887 by a group of doctors, gave clinical and didactic instruction to practicing physicians. In the ensuing session, the New Orleans College of Dent- istry, established in 1898, was absorbed as the Tulane School of Dentistry. Dr. Andrew G. Friedrichs was first dean. In 1928, this School was temporarily suspended because of in- adequate finances, but a Dental Clinic was maintained in the New Hutchinson Memorial Medical Building. The freshman and sophomore medical students moved to the Uptown Campus, to the Richardson Memorial Medical Building, completed for the 1908-09 session. Thi building also contains the Souchon Museum of Anatomy and a branch of the Medical Library. In this year. Dr. Stanford E. Chaille, who had been dean since 1885, retired, and was succeeded by Dr. Isadore Dyer, who held this position until his death in 1920. In 1910-11, the colleges of Arts and Sciences and of Tech- nology were organized under separate deans. Dr. Albert Bled- soe Dinwiddie and Dr. William Henry Creighton, respectively. In 1912, upon Dr. Craighead ' s resignation, Robert Sharp, professor of English, who had been affiliated with the Univer- sity since about 1880, was appointed acting president and later elected president. In 1914 the new office of registrar of the University was first filled by Richard K. Bruff, whose retirement in 1927 marked the end of forty-one years of service to Tulane. THE FISH POND The Newcomb campus is resplendent with beautiful spots made so by luxuriant foliage and attractive landscaping