Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Of five trustees who run Cooper Union, Banker J. Pierpont Morgan was in England and American Telephone & Telegraph's President Walter S. Gifford was recovering from an appendectomy. But beaming upon the beginning of a new chapter in the history of their somewhat eccentric institution were Trustees Gano Dunn...
Founded in 1859 by Inventor Peter Cooper, who built the first U. S. locomotive ("Tom Thumb"), Cooper Union still bears many marks of its picturesque founder. He created it as an institution to teach engineering and art free to the children of the poor. Almost forgotten are some of Peter...
Trustee Morgan and his colleagues have been more conspicuously successful in their financial management of Cooper Union than it has been as an educational institution. The institution's main income comes from the site of the Chrysler Building in Manhattan, donated to the school by the Coopers. Recently Cooper...
Soon after the storm Shepard expressed doubt as to whether it would be possible to continue the long-range program of silviculture which the Forest has been carrying on since its institution 30 years ago.
The blight of any educational institution is the widespread prevalence of dull, factual examination questions demanding little but an air-ting memory. Veering away from such a danger, two recent trends at Harvard have approached the problem from different directions, both pointing toward a more successful criterion than factual memory...