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son of Odin, or Woden, to whom the day of 

 Wednesday was sacred. The French name for 

 Tuesday is Mardi, derived from Mars, the Ro- 

 man war god. In the Church calendar Shrove 

 *day is the Tuesday before Lent. It is so 

 called because confessions are made especially 

 on that day and shrift is received. 



TUFA, too' fa, a porous rock formed by the 

 waters of mineral springs. These waters hold 

 carbonate of lime or silica in solution and de- 

 posit these substances on evaporation. Calca- 

 reous tufa is formed from water containing car- 

 bonate of lime, and silicious tufa from that 

 containing silica. Tufa is a coarse rock, and 

 often contains twigs, leaves or mosses, around 

 which it has formed. The name is also applied 

 to an ash thrown out by volcanoes. 



TUFTS COLLEGE, located at Medford,. 

 Mass., was founded in 1852 as a school for men. 

 It was named for the donor of the site, Charles 

 Tufts. At the present time the college occupies 

 a campus of eighty acres, and the organization 

 comprises the Jackson College for Women, the 

 Bromfield-Pearson School, the Crane Theologi- 

 cal School, the graduate school and the schools 

 of liberal arts and of engineering, at Medford; 

 and medical and dental colleges at Boston. 

 The Bromfield-Pearson School prepares stu- 

 dents who desire to enter the engineering 

 department. Barnum Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, the gift of Phineas T. Barnum, is a con- 

 spicuous building on the campus. Andrew Car- 

 negie donated the Eaton Library, which has 

 64,000 pamphlets and 73,000 volumes. Tufts 

 College has a student enrolment of over 1,700 

 and a faculty of about 255. 



TUILERIES, tweel're, ortwe'leriz, a famous 

 royal palace, which stood on the right bank of 

 the Seine, in Paris. It was named from the 

 tile works that had formerly occupied the site. 

 Catharine de' Medici began the building, which 

 was originally a great circular structure sur- 

 mounted by a dome. Later rulers of France 

 made alterations in the plan, changing the cen- 

 tral pavilion to a square, and adding north and 

 south wings and a gallery which connected the 

 palace with the Louvre. Few events of historic 

 importance took place in the Tuileries before 

 1789, when Louis XVI and his family were 

 forced by the revolutionary mob to take up 

 their residence there instead of at Versailles. 

 It was here the Swiss Guards were slain four 

 years later, and here the Convention for a 

 time held its sessions. It was the home of 

 Napoleon, and continued to be the royal resi- 

 dence after the. Restoration. In 1871 it was 



almost entirely destroyed by the communists. 

 The garden of the Tuileries is still a favorite 

 pleasure resort. 



TULANE, tulayn', UNIVERSITY, located 

 in New Orleans, is one of the largest and 

 strongest institutions of higher education in 

 the South. The organization evolved from the 

 Medical College of Louisiana, one of the first 

 medical schools of the country, established in 

 1834. Out of the medical school developed the 

 University of Louisiana, chartered in 1845. The 

 Tulane University dates from 1882, when Paul 

 Tulane, a merchant of New Orleans, donated 

 the first instalment of a $1,050,000 gift for an 

 educational institution in the city. It was de- 

 cided by the administrators that the income 

 from the fund should be used to strengthen 

 the existing university. 



In 1884 the present name was adopted, and a 

 contract was made between the state and the 

 administrators whereby the Tulane Fund would 

 be forever exempt from taxation. Later a gift 

 of $100,000 from Mrs. Josephine L. Newcomb, 

 increased by her will to $3,000,000, established 

 the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College for 

 women. The other departments of the uni- 

 versity are the colleges of arts and sciences, 

 commerce and business administration, tech- 

 nology, medicine, law, dentistry and pharmacy. 

 Especially valuable work is done in the de- 

 partments of hygiene and tropical medicine, 

 and in sugar chemistry and sugar engineering. 

 All departments are located in New Orleans. 

 The faculty numbers about 310, and the stu- 

 dent enrolment is over 2,700. The library con- 

 tains about 71,000 volumes. 



TU'LIP, a genus of early-blooming plants 

 belonging to the lily family, widely cultivated 

 for their showy flowers of many colors. The 

 tulip is one of the most gracefully-fashioned of 

 garden favorites, a characteristic which led the 

 poet James Montgomery to write: 



Not one of Flora's brilliant race 

 A form more perfect can display ; 



Art could not feign more simple grace 

 Nor Nature take a line away. 



There are about forty-five species, most of 

 which are native to Southern Europe and to 

 the warm regions of Asia. Nearly all culti- 

 vated varieties of tulip are derived from a spe- 

 cies brought to Vienna from Constantinople in 

 the sixteenth century. The very name is of 

 Turkish origin, and means turban. Tulips 

 grow from bulbs. The leaves 'spring directly 

 from the bulb, and the flower stems, which are 

 from three inches to over two feet in height, 



