The Revolt of the College Intellectual »

The exuberant explosions of old college days have traditionally been forgiven as somewhat enviable expressions of the high spirits of exultant youth.
Are young intellectuals, now the dominant group in many colleges, less adolescent and more mature, or do their immaturities merely manifest themselves in different ways? As intellectual individualists, students do not usually care for group explosions unless they are for social causes such as the rights of minorities. But their adolescence often manifests itself individually in a superior condescension or in depressive inferiority complexes.

Preface     ix
Introduction     xv
Awakened colleges     1
William Penn and guarded education at Swarthmore     11
Conformity to the ways of the world     24
Revolt of the intellectuals     51
Students speak for themselves     108
Some disturbed personalities     134
The intellectual community     148
Notes     167