The Goose-step: A Study of American EducationSinclair, Upton
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The Goose-step: A Study of American Education
Sinclair, Upton
Education -- United States; Universities and colleges -- United States
There are a few other universities, which in past times have established
reputations in America; for example, Cornell University, located at
Ithaca, New York, on the Lackawanna Railroad, with a Cornell trustee, a
Columbia trustee, and a Princeton trustee; also on the Lehigh Railroad,
with a trustee and recent president of Lehigh College, a trustee of the
University of Pennsylvania, and a trustee of Lafayette College for
directors. Cornell today has some six thousand students, and as choice
an outfit of trustees as a plutocratic imagination could invent. The
grand duke is Mr. George F. Baker, reputed to be, next to Rockefeller,
the richest man in America. I might take a page of this book to list all
the various institutions of which Mr. Baker is an interlocking director.
He is president of the First National Bank of New York, one of the three
great institutions of the Money Trust, and also a trustee of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company, a great treasure-chest. He is director in a
dozen railroads, and his son is director in many more.
Next to Mr. Baker stands Mr. Charles M. Schwab, president of Bethlehem
Steel, and H. H. Westinghouse, chairman of the Westinghouse Company. It
will suffice to indicate a few of the others—the head of the biggest
bank in Ithaca; the head of a great machinery company, president of a
national bank; a corporation lawyer and bank director; a metal
manufacturer, director of many railroads; an ex-governor and prominent
Republican politician; the chairman of the Bankers’ Trust Company of
Buffalo, president of a steamship company, a lumber company and a
railroad company; the vice-president and counsel of the New York Central
Railroad; a prominent corporation lawyer; a judge, ex-mayor of Ithaca,
and director of a national bank; the president of a national bank and
director of half a dozen others; the president of the Ithaca Trust
Company, director of many other banks; an official of Mr. Schwab’s
shipbuilding corporation; the chief justice, and another justice, of the
New York Court of Appeals; and, finally, that Major Seaman whose heroic
defense of the Chicago packers you may read about in Chapter IV of “The
Brass Check.”
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