TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harvard 1926
TI  - Harvard 1926: The Life and Opinions of a College Class 
SN  - 9780674863293
AV  - LD2147 
U1  - 378.744 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
KW  - Social history
KW  - Social Conditions
KW  - United States
KW  - EDUCATION / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674865976
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