Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard, which does not record marriage, reports that 83 men are in the military (seven per cent of the class, down from eight in '65). Of those, the largest proportion, 43 per cent, are in the Navy. Thirty-nine ROTC commissions were granted to '66 seniors, down 18 from...
...class sent 167 to work. The proportion is standard for Harvard, but the distribution of jobs was a striking change. Almost half of those who are working are in social service: Peace Corps, Vista, ACCION, etc., most of which, of course, qualify for draft deferments. This is a 25 per cent increase over '65. The big shifts the other way occurred in the category of "general management," down from 16 per cent to a minute two per cent, and in engineering, down by half from 14 per cent to seven. Teaching claimed 20 per cent of the Harvard work force...
Radcliffe, which sent 101 girls into the job market (more than a third of the class), also concentrated on service jobs. The Peace Corps, Volunteer Teachers for Africa, National Teachers' Corps, and non-profit businesses attracted almost 20 per cent of those who are working. Non-scientific research was the second most popular field (18 percent), followed by teaching and communications (mostly publishing), with 14 per cent each...
...almost predict what you will be doing after graduation from your degree of honors. At Radcliffe, all of last year's summa and magna highest graduates are in grad school, as well as 60 per cent of the magnas, 42 per cent of the cums, and only 33 per cent of the non-honors graduates. At Harvard, 92 per cent of the summas go to grad school, along with 87 per cent of the magnas, 82 per cent of the C.L.G.S. graduates, 81 per cent of the cums, and 52 per cent of the non-honors...
...sciences: the higher the honors, the more likely that kind of grad school. On the other hand, the law school distribution for the class of '66 was quite even throughout the different degrees of honors. Elsewhere, one-third of those going to medical school graduated C.L.G.S. and 48 per cent of those going to business school graduated without honors...