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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps this explains why most student groups for political study end in quick failure. After one or two enthusiastic meetings, most members realize that they lack both the time and the special competence to gain an adequate understanding of, say, the disarmament issue--the variety of plans involved, their implications, the history of negotiations, the forces at work on the participants...
...student hopes to speak--or even think--about politics intelligently he must face three baffling problems. First, the fact that politics is becoming increasingly complicated, and second, its effects are becoming more and more explosive. As a mode of debate, argument-by-slogan is more dangerous than ever before, and as a mode of operation, policy-by-experimentation is less feasible. Thirdly, as the magnitude of political problems multiplies, the authority responsible for their solution becomes progressively concentrated. Faced with complex, crucial issues, and an imposing, impersonal government, students are at a loss to understand how they...
...features attempt to answer some questions essential to an understanding of the undergraduate and the College: What are the religious and political opinions of Harvard undergraduates? What transitions in attitudes have undergraduates experienced? What factors cause these changes and, more specifically, what effect does Harvard exert in molding the student's beliefs...
Each undergraduate here has probably formulated some rough notions about the influences of the College; in general, one would expect the atmosphere of the University to exert a "liberalizing" or more questioning attitude toward the legacy of opinion that the student possesses when he arrives in Cambridge. But we have tried to chart these effects on different groups among the undergraduates and to isolate the causes more accurately...
Results indicate, in summary, that although Harvard's influence leads to re-examination of beliefs it rarely induces a reversal of beliefs, and that the period of secondary school education is the one in which occur most significant transitions from family tradition. The College thus attracts the questioning student; it does not produce...