New York, NY, Estados Unidos : David Mckay, 1970.

178 p. ; 21 cm.

Preface and acknowledgments. -- Introduction. -- I. The good and old days, 1900-1920. -- II. The twenties: Mad, blad and glad. -- III. The thirties: hard times and somber students. -- IV. G.I.s on campus: the forties. -- V. The silent generation. --

Tomado de la solapa: "The American university today is the scene of political ferment and social unrest, anarchy and violence, peaceful protest and racial antagonism. Never has it been more important to understand not only how times have changed, but why. What has led up to this destruction of the ivory tower image we remember so well from the 50? The Campus Scene successfully probes the question of orgins. It is a penetrating look at the cultural and idiological milieu surrounding colleges from 1900 to the present. Here are the fads, mores, dating habits, literaty preferences, political beliefs, and philosophies of every generation from the sentimental "good old days" at the turn of the century to the psychedelic liberation of today. Calvin Lee traces the growth of self-awareness and commitment that is the mark of the college student today: students who used to read William James and John Dewey now read Paul Goodman and Herbert Marcuse: computer dating on campus has replace the syndicate for blind dates popular in 1920 (5o¢ a date); coeducational dormitories succeed today where dances that kept couples two feet apart failed in 1900. After discussing the turbulent 30s, Lee explores the war years, the 40s, when the G.I. Bill gave every returning soldier the opportunity for a college education and produced "the soberest, most trained graduating class in U.S. history". He examines the "silent generation" of the 50s, when the apatyhetic majority, tired of war and politics, and suspicious of an internal Communist conspiracy, were gradually being infiltrated by a minority who read Kerouac and Camus. The Campus Scene must be read by anyone concerned with the relation between high education and the revolt against alienation, splinterization, poverty, and war in American society. It is a compelling explanation of the present explosions on campus in terms of the growing dissatisfaction and disillusionment of the past seventy years".