Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-05
NEW YORK'S COLLEGE
Unique Educational Institution
Supported by the Metropolis.
PRESIDENT AND STUDENTS
Preparatory and. Collegiate Depart
ments Under One Head.
THE OLD AND NEW BUILDINGS
Once Known as the Rich Mans
school-Many Prominent Men
Among Its Alumni.
Written Tor The Star.

Written for The Star.
There are a number Of state universities
west of the Allegheny mountains which
furnish young men with collegiate training
entirely free of cost The students must
maintain and clothe themselves hut there
is no charge whatever for tuition. books or
apparatus. The state pays all the expense
of carrying on the school in each case.
This Is true of no eastern state
Only one city in the United States does
as much The Cincinnati University is
partially supported by founda ton estab
hshed by bequest; Baltimores City College
stops short of full collegiate course and
the training furnished by the Central High
School Of Philadelphia, not a college at all
in name, only approaches the collegiate.
But the college of the City of New York
provides every resident young man who
asks for 1t, and can pass its examinations
with a full college course, classical or
scientific, as desired, entirely without cost
for books, apparatus or extras.
Its various departments include a pre-
paratory school, which accepts the boys in
their early teens and fits them for the
college proper. Its rolls today carry the
names of $500 students, the collegiate de-
partment proper numbering somewhat less
than 1000, The majority of all the stu
dents graduated from the institution are
fitted in its own preparatory school for the
college course, but students are received
from private schools, the comparatively
new city high schools or any other pre-
para tory institution,
The only requirements are fitness-and res
idence in the city, but these are rigidly
mitted the Normal College, for young
women exclusively. however furnishing
educational facilities to them as freely as
the City College does to young men.
An Interesting Institution.
This unique educational institution is one
of the most interesting in the country for
various reasons, and its president DR..
John H. Finley. is an interesting man.
The college has been in operation since
1915 when the first class entered. 1t was
then known as the Free Academy. 1t was
raised to the college rank in 1865. AT first
known the rich mans college 1t Is now
sometimes called the poor mans.
Many of It's graduates have become men
of position or influence. President Remsen
OF Johns Hopkins University In Balti-
more was a City College student; SO were
five of the supreme court justices of the
city of New York; and when DR.. Finley
was installed as president, In 1903, Cleve-
land Able. Everett 2. Wheeler, Henry r.
Tremains and other well-known men were
in the alumni procession. The late isaac
Seligman in his day power in finance;
Russell Sturgis, the architect; Edward Lau-
termach, Maurice Grau, who preceded
Heinrich Conried as director of the Metro
politan Opera House; John Bach McMas-
fer the historian: John Claflin, the great
merchant; Edward NJ. Shepard. lawyer and
nolitician; Robert Able, the noted surgeon;
Bashford Dean of the Columbia Oniversity
facultv-these are a few among the City
Colleges graduates who have made their
names known to the world by exceptional
achievements.
The plan of combining the preparatory
and college departments in the one instltu-
ton is distinctive with the City College
By this plan, as worked out, the student III
any given subject is under the same per-
sonal direction from the time he begins to
fit himself for the college course TIL the day
of his graduation. classes OF all grades IN
Latin mathematics or any other brancn or
study being under the several supervisions
of the same faculty member. This insures
a continuity of method in training, the aa-
vantage of which is obvious; 1t is undoubt-
edly of time saving value to the student.
At the same time great care has been