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Definition of Cooper Union
1. Noun. University founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciences.
Generic synonyms: University
Group relationships: Greater New York, New York, New York City
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cooper Union
Literary usage of Cooper Union
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by Marion Mills Miller, United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"Looms Up as a Candidate for the Republican Nomination—His Speech at Cooper Union,
New York, on "Slavery as the Fathers Viewed It"—The Republican Convention ..."
2. The President's Report by Mohawk College (1920)
"THE Cooper Union FOR over half a century the Cooper Union has given, in order to
advance Science and Art, education to over 180000 men and women, ..."
3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"3 Professor in charge of Department of Chemistry, Cooper Union, New York City.
... Cooper Union ..."
4. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ...by John Howard Brown by John Howard Brown (1904)
"He was the chief of the board of trustees that devised the plan of the Cooper
Union in New York city and while nominally holding the office of secretary of ..."
5. Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay Whitney (1907)
"Slavery as the Fathers Viewed It. ADDRESS AT Cooper Union, NEW YORK. FEBRUARY 27,
1860. Mr. President and Fellow-citizens of New York: The facts with which ..."