Education: Subway College

Most of its students go to classes by subway, and one of its off-campus centers of undergraduate life is an Automat. If you want rah-rah, Manhattan's City College (the full, unrelieved title is The City College of the College of the City of New York*) is no place to go.

Despite its uncollegiate atmosphere and its sparsely ivied walls, City College has developed an alumni body as full of loyalty as it is of famous names. Last week City College was busily celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. The centenary year opened with a...

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