Thomas Gresham own house in Bishopsgate Street and the rents from the Royal Exchange should be vested in the Corporation of London and the Mercers Company, for the purpose of instituting a college in which seven professors should read lectures, one each day of the week, in astronomy, geometry, physic, law, divinity, rhetoric and music. Thus, Gresham College, the first institution of higher learning in London, came to be established in 1597. Gresham's Law (stated simply as: "Bad money drives out good") takes its name from him (although others, including the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, had recognised the concept for years) because he
Bad for Good Steinman recorded the album, retitled "Bad for Good", as a solo project, although Rory Dodd contributed lead vocals on some songs. Many musicians and backing vocalists from "Bat Out of Hell" performed on "Bad for Good", including Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg from Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Like "Bat Out of Hell", Richard Corben illustrated the cover. Describing the cover, "Sounds" magazine says "the flesh, the puppy-fat on the mid-calf, the breasts, the upturned American nose ... Corben's evocation of teenage femininity is so right! The cover, though, is the product of an alternative universe, like everything else about