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...When TIME questioned them in 1947, the graduates had a median age of about 37, and four out of ten were women. About half grew up in towns of less than 25,000, and less than half came from "college families." The big majority of the graduates worked at least part of their way through college: only about three out of ten "never turned a hand at gainful labor until they got their degrees...
...outstanding fact of the survey is that, as a group, they have done well financially. As of 1947, the median income for all American men was $2,200, but the Old Grad was making well over twice as much. Only one in 200 was unemployed; only 16% held minor or manual jobs. The rest were in business (53%), became doctors, lawyers or dentists (16%), teachers (16%), clergymen (4%), artists or scientists (1% each). The doctors were the biggest earners: over half making more than $7,500 a year. The graduates at the bottom of the economic pyramid: teachers and preachers...
...career woman, she soon learns that it is still a man's world. Her median income at the time of the survey was a mere $2,689, and only a handful (6%) of fellow graduates have ended up as doctors, lawyers or dentists; only 12% became executives. In six out of ten cases, "the typical college career woman [is] a schoolteacher." Party Lines. Male or female, the Old Grad is something of a rebuke to those who think that a campus is a breeder of radi cals. Republicans outnumber Democrats three to two, and more than half...
...college, you may want to take a look at the "Portrait of the Old Grad'' from a job-and-salary standpoint. Just about five out of six male graduates hold down top positions in their communities-in the professions, or as owners, managers or executives. Median earnings of the male graduates at the time of the study were $4,689 a year, more than double that for all men in the U.S. "Our college graduates earn more money almost from the first year on the job than the average man makes at the peak of his earning power...
...begin: "Mr. Faulkner's style, though often brilliant and always interesting, is all too frequently downright bad." After quoting several horrible examples he complains of the "overelaborate sentence structure"; this complaint, by the way, is in a column of type consisting of five of his own sentences, of median length 67 words--par in any company. But he goes on to develope the positive thesis that Faulkner's writing is often remarkably effective from an abstract technical viewpoint...