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...frequently asked today, especially in America : "Does college training pay ? Do men of natural force and ability really benefit by the outlay of time and money required for a university education ?" The so-called "self-made men" point with a just pride to Abraham Lincoln and to Peter Cooper and ask . "What better men than these, do the colleges turn out ?" It is not my purpose to discuss how many college men may be but pedants and dreamers, nor to attempt to prove that "self-made men" may be woefully lacking in all real worth, but my object is simply...
...tendency has been, as at most colleges, to instill into students certain abstract principles of free trade on which are based opinions that show little acquaintance with the practical workings of our national institutions and prove equally intolerant with those of the extreme protectionists. As one of the Cooper Institute speakers says, "they do this without reflecting that those theories are constructed from a British standpoint." And, too, "they assume that political economy is an exact science, applying alike to all countries and situations; when, as a matter of fact, it is a relative science, and must be accommodated...
...Mayors Hall, Ely, Grace, Cooper and Wickham, General Grant, Ex-Senator Conkling, William H. Vanderbilt and Jay Gould have been summoned as a coroner's jury in the case of Geo. Mahan, who killed a fellow-patient in the Bellevue Hospital, New York, last Sunday...
...Cooper Hall & Co., merchants and bankers, London, have failed with liabilities of pound...
...following men are candidates for the Princeton nine: Wadleigh, '83; Wilson, '83; Mitchell, '83; A. Moffat, '84; Harlan, '84; Belknap, '84; W. Moffat, '84; Look, '84; Clark, '85; Wylie, '85; Cooper, '85; Van Etten, '85; Potter, '85; Toler, '85; Harris, '86; Forsyth, '86; Shaw, '86; Harding, '86; and Ford, Divinity...