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Heirs sue Tulane for closing women's college.(NEWSWATCH)

Women in Higher Education

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When Josephine Newcomb died in 1901 and left $2 million to Tulane University LA to support the separate college for women she founded in 1886, it was happy to oblige.

Now that it's closing the school on July 1--combining it with a men's college--Newcomb's heirs are suing Tulane for violating terms of the donation, which has now grown to a $46 million ...

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