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

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

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Harvard 1926,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1951
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (98 p.)
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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

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