From the Free Academy to Cuny

"From the Free Academy to CUNY provides the first generally accessible narrative of the development of the City University of New York from its inception in 1847 as the Free Academy to its present status as the largest urban university in the country. Some 120 annotated illustrations dramatize the 150 years in which this institution has been facing the challenge of educating "the children of the whole people.""--BOOK JACKET.