“Currently the cost of the three academic programs exceeds 40 million dollars a year,
and is increasing every year.”
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“...the strongest legacy is the idea of civic stewardship. The idea that if you make money in a community, or a country, that you have an obligation to give something back to the community And that’s a theme that runs through American history. But I don’t think it had really reached its fullest realization, aside from Franklin, until Peter Cooper came along.”
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