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

De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Archive 1896-1999 Available online

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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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