A slum kid's Harvard, New York City's tuition-free City College has produced such men as Financier Bernard Baruch and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Started 114 years ago, it sparked the founding of six more colleges to form a huge municipal system that now has 91,450 students. By winning the right to grant doctorates, the system this month became "the world's largest university." This week City University installed its first chancellor: John Rutherford Everett, 42, former president of Virginia's little (675 women) Hollins College, who calls his new job "probably the roughest in U.S. higher education."
The Oregon-born son of a Texas...
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