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The Life and Opinions of a College Class / Harvard 1926.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harvard 1926, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen.
- Social history.
- Social Conditions.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Social Conditions.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (110 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "Harvard 1926".
- 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 2,000
- 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
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-86597-9
- OCLC:
- 900849758
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