TULANE UNIVERSITY. An institution at New Orleans, La., organized on its present basis in 1884, when the State placed the existing University of Louisiana, chartered in 1845, under the perpetual care of the Board of Adminis trators of the Tulaue Educational Fund. In 18S2 Paul Tulane (q.v.) gave his property in that city for the higher education of the "white young persons in the city of New Orleans." His donations up to the time of his death amounted to $1,050,000. In 1SS6 Sirs. Josephine Louise Newcomb of New York gave the sum of $100.000 to establish the II. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College for the higher education of white girls and young women. A new and thoroughly equipped building for the medical department was given in 1891 by the widow of Dr. Richard son, a former professor, and in 1900 :Mrs. Caro line Tilton gave a library building named in honor of her husband. The university consists of the Graduate Department, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Technology, the Newcomb Memorial College, the Law Department, and the _Medical Department. It confers the bachelor's
degree in arts, science, engineering, and law, the master's degree in arts and pharmacy, the doctor's degree in philosophy and medicine, and the degrees of mechanical, civil, chemical, and sugar engineer. All the departments are situated in the city of New Orleans. The campus contains about 18 acres, with 6 acres devoted to athletics. The total attendance in 1903 was 1364, the faculty numbered 91, and the library contained 45,000 volumes. The value of the grounds and buildings was estimated at $830,000, the total valuation of the university property being $2, 186,000. The endowment was $1,230,000 and the gross income $129,000.