Word: pupin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such distinguished visitors as the future Edward VII. an inspection of Cooper Union was a must. As the years went by, everyone from Mark Twain to Woodrow Wilson to Bertrand Russell lectured there. The Union gave Inventor Michael Pupin his start in life; it trained Sculptor Saint-Gaudens. Its library was the favorite haunt of an immigrant boy named Felix Frankfurter. "It was the place." said Frankfurter later, "that first stretched my mind...