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foresight, self control, and the habit of harmonious combination for common ends. | Cooper Union, or Cooper Institute, an institute founded in New York city in 1857 by Peter Cooper. Its object is to provide free schools of art and science, and free reading rooms and library for the working cla es. There are lecture courses, a museum, an art gallery, and a library of 31,000 volumes, with a reading room containing current numbers of nearly 500 magazines and newspapers. The Institute was built at a cost of $630,000 and was endowed by Mr. Cooper with $300,000. It has received additional cs from time to time from Edward ooper and Abram S. Hewitt, and in 1899 Andrew Carnegie gave it $600,- 000 for the founding of a mechanical day art school and other purposes, Coote, Sir Eyre, a British mil i officer; born in County Limerick, Ireland, in 1726; entered the —_ at an early age; and from 1754 to 1762 served in India. His capture of Pond i cherry m 1761 completed the downfall of the French in India.