Tulane University School Of Public Health And Tropical Medicine
The Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is part of Tulane University of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the oldest school of public health in the United States and the only American school of Tropical Medicine.
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“1946: I go to graduate school at Tulane in order to get distance from a “possessive” mother. I see a lot of a red-haired girl named Maude-Ellen. My mother asks one day: “Does Maude-Ellen have warts? Every girl I’ve known named Maude-Ellen has had warts.” Right: Maude-Ellen had warts.”
—Bill Bouke (20th century)
“The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)
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—State of Oklahoma, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)