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Alex3917
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Cornell Said Chosen for NYC Engineering Campus
Also, Cornell is named after a guy who made his money in the communication technologies business. Unlike Yale, Stanford, Duke, and most of the other elite schools in the U.S., which are named after drug dealers.
kloncks
on Dec 19, 2011
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Drug dealers!? Please elaborate.
Duff
on Dec 19, 2011
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Elihu Yale was a Governor of the British East India Company, which made the King rich by peddling drugs to the Chinese, among other thing.
Don't know about the rest.
gcampbell
on Dec 19, 2011
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I thought the preferred pejorative for Leland Stanford was "robber baron".
Duff
on Dec 19, 2011
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Or "Captain of Industry" in friendlier contexts.
ctkrohn
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Duke's name comes from a tobacco businessman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan_Duke
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