Campus Life

Every generation of college students, no matter how different from its predecessor, has been an enigma to faculty and administration, to parents, and to society in general. Watching today's students "holding themselves in because they had to get A's not only on tests but on deans' reports and recommendations, " Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, author of the highly praised Alma Mater, began to ask, "What has gone wrong-how did we get where we are today?" Campus Life is the result of her search-through college studies, alumni autobiographies, and among students themselves-for an answer.
She begins in the post-revolutionary years when the peculiarly American form of college was born, forced in the student-faculty warfare: in 1800, pleasure-seeking Princeton students, angered by disciplinary action, "show pistols .