Universities: The Giant That Nobody Knows

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bit. "It may sound frightening," he says, "but it's also rather glorious when you think of all the people who are going to get educated."

^{* Except for the 65,663-student, tuition-free City University of New York (seven senior colleges), which draws half of its operating and building funds from the state and administers six of the state's junior colleges.
* While at Bates College, Gould also left the Orthodox Jewish faith of his parents. He later became a Presbyterian, served as a church elder.
* He resigned last month in a dispute with his faculty over the tenure of a professor accused of helping students issue seditious statements about the Viet Nam War.}