Cooper Union College - Cable Yearbook (New York, NY)

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ENGINEERING College at last, the first actual step toward an engineering career. With exams concluded we who were successful started our career at Cooper Union and became the class of '43. From the very beginning the severity of competition at Cooper Union was shown to us by the diiiicult exams and other requisites for entrance which decreased the original applicants in number to the 100 who now comprise our class. But little did we know that our troubles were only beginning. ln high school, matters had been comparatively simple. We had all been good students and had little difficulty with the easy work. Homework was light and we even had time to sleep at night. But when we began in college, all that changed. The work, while not exceptionally difficult was over-abundant. During the first semester we were assigned a full program of class work, 30 hours a week, which is more time than any other course is given. The I 5

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I P R E a typical Cooper Union student. I am any student you see in or around the halls of Cooper Union. I may be an engineer or an artist. I may go to day or night sessions. My former schooling may have taken place in either a small town or a big town, my high school may have been academic or technical, several of my years may have been spent in other colleges, but here in the melting pot of Cooper Union, I enjoy that old proverb - one for all and all for one.

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