Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, with the publication of a new 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...
...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...
...have married, 96% have stayed married, thus topping the 89% record for all U.S. married males by seven points. College women have not been so fortunate: 31% of them have remained unmarried as compared to only 13% of all U.S. women. It would appear, concludes the survey, that for many women college "amounts to an education for spinsterhood...
...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...
...politician? Surprisingly enough, the answer is no. The men who went in for four extracurricular activities for instance, are apt to average about $1,000 less than men who went in for no activities at all. And what about the students who worked their way through college? Here the survey shatters an old American illusion. Among the Old Grads of 40 whose parents supported them entirely, 42% make $7,500 or more. The score for the Horatio Alger group...