COOPER INSTITUTE, NEW YORK CITY.
And when the grand building was opened students crowded in from the shops and factories.
Some were worn and tired, as Peter Cooper had often been in his youth.
But they studied eagerly in spite of that.
Every Saturday night two thousand came together in the great hall.
There the most famous people in the world lectured before them.
Every year nearly five hundred thousand read in the free library and reading rooms.
Four thousand pupils came to the night school to study science and art.
The white-haired, kindly-faced man went daily to see the students.