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...many of you may have already discovered for yourselves, co-Authors Ernest Havemann and Dr. Patricia Salter West (a ca-CHART)8 reer woman-housewife) recognized the possibility that marriage might be a matter of choice when they wrote: "It may be that the kind of woman who goes to college, and stays there until she gets her degree, is simply by nature the self-sufficient type who does not regard marriage as woman's ultimate destiny-and will not embark upon it except under the most promising circumstances...
...book called They Went to College (Harcourt, Brace; $4), U.S. readers could find out. The book is the product of a five-year study, made by TIME, of 9,064 representative graduates. A Columbia University statistician, Patricia Salter West, analyzed the survey, and LIFE Editor Ernest Havemann translated the statistics into eminently readable English. The result: as complete a portrait of the Old Grad as has ever been published...
When Co-Authors Ernest Havemann and Mrs. Patricia Salter West examined the information furnished by more than 9,000 graduates, they found firm support for some widespread beliefs (e.g., "the cities - and especially the big cities - have a pronounced attraction for college graduates"), but also learned that the facts tended to puncture some equally well-established myths - such as the fiction that wealthier college graduates tend to have fewer children...
...findings were then turned over to Ernest Havemann, former TIME editor now with LIFE, whose often-demonstrated ability to "humanize" statistics made him a logical choice. While Havemann was writing the book, it was being checked, chapter by chapter, by Drs. Merton and West. Havemann had a field day, comparing the accepted myths (which he termed the "folklore") about college graduates with the facts revealed by the study...
Housepainter Havemann, a faithful henchman of Dr. Stresemann's People's Party, failed to get into the Reichstag when he stood for election a year ago last Spring. Therefore he was on the panel of defeated candidates from which Reichstag vacancies must be filled under German law. The party of him whose seat is vacated is allowed to choose his successor from the panel. Last week it merely chanced that lucky Housepainter Havemann stood first on the People's Party's list of disgruntled gillies slated for easy honors...