Harvard 1926 : : The Life and Opinions of a College Class / / Harvard 1926.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Harvard 1926,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1951
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (98 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: A résumé of our origins -- Why We Went to Harvard: A study in motivations and habit -- Bright College Years: Or what happened to us at Cambridge -- Debits and Credits: Some observations on the values and drawbacks of a Harvard education -- The Search for Jobs: Seventeen per cent of us are still dissatisfied -- Progress under the Profit System: The median annual income of the class is today not quite $12,000 -- Shall We Grow Old Gracefully? Six out of ten have assets for their old age -- The Political Man: Though still predominantly Republican, we consider ourselves more liberal than we used to be; but our resistance to socialistic ideas and our dislike of the Soviet regime have grown -- Our Religious Outlook: There is little habit in our churchgoing -- Our Views on Current Trends in Education: We still exalt the liberal and humanist traditions -- The Continuing Ties: I. Money contributions; social and professional relations; the outer limbo -- The Continuing Ties: II. We find much to admire, a few things to deplore, in Harvard today -- Our Position in American Society: We place ourselves in the Upper Middle Class -- Men of Distinction – with Aberrations One in five is in a Who's Who; nearly as many have written books -- The First Symptoms of Middle Age: Not yet ready for the wheelchair, we are beginning to retire from the strenuous life -- The Uses of Leisure: Veblen would, have been confused -- Pour la Patrie One man in three served with the Armed Forces -- The Marital Condition: The divorce rate is high, but so is marital contentment -- The Women We Married: The distaff view -- The Pursuit of Happiness: It still eludes 15 per cent of us -- Appendix About the survey and its validity