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H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, or Newcomb College, was the coordinate women's college of Tulane University located in New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It was founded by Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1886 in memory of her daughter.
In 1886, the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College for Women was established as part of Tulane. The university moved to its present campus on St. Charles Avenue in 1894, but medical school classes were held on the Uptown and Downtown campuses until the 1960s.
In 1886, the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College was established as Tulane’s co-ordinate college for women. More than 180 years later, Tulane University has become one of the most respected educational and research institutions in the country.
Josephine Louise Newcomb gave $100,000 (worth roughly $2.7 million today) to the Tulane Board of Administrators in memory of her daughter, Harriott Sophie Newcomb, who died of diphtheria at the age of fifteen. Mrs. Newcomb’s vision was to create a place that “would go on year by year doing good.
24 de nov. de 2021 · In 1886 this memorial wish took form as the “H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in the Tulane University of Louisiana for the higher education of white girls and women.” Josephine Newcomb’s initial gift of $100,000 to the Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund created the first degree-granting coordinate college for ...
In 1886, Josephine Louise Newcomb donated $100,000 to establish a women’s college in memory of her deceased daughter, Harriet Sophie Newcomb. The college was designated a coordinate college of Tulane University with its own president and administrative structure—the nation’s first degree-granting coordinate college for females established ...
In this Book. Additional Information. Newcomb College, 1886-2006: Higher Education for Women in New Orleans. Book. edited by Susan Tucker and Beth Willinger. 2012. Published by: Louisiana State University Press. View. summary.
