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See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
COOPER See also:UNION , a unique educational and charitable institution " for the See also:advancement of See also:science and See also:art " in New See also:York See also:city. It is housed in a brownstone See also:building in See also:Astor See also:Place, between 3rd and 4th Avenues immediately N. of the Bowery, and was founded in 1857–1859 by See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Cooper, and chartered in 1859. In a See also:letter to the trustees accompanying the See also:trust-See also:deed to the See also:property, Cooper said that he wished the endowment to be " for ever devoted to the advancement of science and art, in their application to the varied and useful purposes of See also:life "; provided for a See also:reading-See also:room, a school of art for See also:women, and an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in the Union, " where persons may apply . . . for the services of See also:young men and women of known See also:character and qualifications to fill the various situations "; expressed the See also:desire that students have monthly meetings held in due See also:form, " as I believe it to be a very important See also:part of the See also:education of an See also:American See also:citizen to know how to preside with propriety over a deliberative See also:assembly "; urged lectures and debates exclusive of theological and party questions; and required that no religious test should ever be made for See also:admission to the Union. Cooper's most efficient assistant in the Union was Abram S. See also:Hewitt. In 1900 See also:Andrew See also:Carnegie put the finances of the Union on a sure footing by gifts aggregating $600,000. For the See also:year 1.907 its See also:revenue was $161,228 (including extraordinary receipts of $25,565, from bequests, &c.), its expenditures $161,390; at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time its See also:assets were $3,870,520, of which $1,070,877 was See also:general endowment, building and equipment, and $2,797,728 was See also:special endowments ($205,000 being various endowments by Peter Cooper; $340,000, the See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Cooper See also:Foundation; $600,000, the Cooper-Hewitt Foundation; $391,656, the See also:John See also:Halstead See also:Bequest; $217,820, the Hewitt Memorial Endowment). The See also:work has been 'very successful, the instruction is excellent, and the See also:interest of the pupils is eager. All courses are See also:free. The reading-room and library contain full files of current See also:journals and magazines; the library has the rare See also:complete old and new See also:series of patent office reports, and in 1907 had 45,760 volumes; in the same year there were 578,582 readers. There is an excellent museum for the arts of decoration. Apart. from valuable lecture courses, the See also:principal departments of the Union, with their attendance in 1907, were: a See also:night school of science—a five-year course in general science (667) and in See also:chemistry (154), a three-year course in See also:electricity (114), and a night school of art (1333); a See also:day school of technical science—four years in See also:civil, See also:mechanical or See also:electrical engineering—(237); a woman's art school (282); a school of See also:stenography and typewriting for women (55); a school of telegraphy for women (31); a class in elocution (96); and classes in See also:oratory and debate (146). During the year 2505 was the highest number in attendance at any time, and then 3000 were on the waiting See also:list.
In the See also:great See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall of the Union free lectures for the See also:people are given throughout the See also:winter; one course, the Hewitt lectures, in co-operation with See also:Columbia University, " of a very high grade, corresponding more nearly to those given by the See also:Lowell See also:Institute in See also:Boston "; six (in 1907) courses in co-operation with the See also:Board of Education of New York city, which, upon See also:Mayor Hewitt's See also:suggestion, made an See also:appropriation for this work in
1887-1888, and extended such lecture courses to different parts of the city, all under the direction (after ago) of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry M. Leipziger (b. 1854), and several courses dealing especially with social and See also:political subjects, and including, besides lectures and recitals, public meetings for the discussion of current problems.
CO-OPTATION (from See also:Lat. co-optare; less correctly " co-See also:option "), the See also:election to vacancies on a legislative, administrative or other See also:body by the votes of the existing members of the body, instead of by an outside See also:constituency. Such bodies may be purely co-optative, as the Royal See also:Academy, or may be elective with See also:power to add to the See also:numbers by co-optation, as municipal corporations in See also:England.
End of Article: COOPER UNION
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