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Article: Minority report.(THE SOURCE OF THE RIVER: The Social Origins of Freshman at America's Colleges and Universities by Douglas s. Masse, Camille Z. Charles, Garvey F. Lundy, and Mary J. Fischer )
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- March 1, 2003
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THE SOURCE OF THE RIVER: The Social Origins of Freshman at America's Colleges and Universities by Douglas s. Masse, Camille Z. Charles, Garvey F. Lundy, and Mary J. Fischer Princeton University Press, $29.95
THERE ARE IN THIS WORLD A few blessed spots where the very best yearn to perform. For baseball players, it is Yankee Stadium; for lawyers, the courtroom of the U.S. Supreme Court; for astronomers, the Keck Observatory at Manna Kea. And for educational researchers, particularly those interested in higher education, it is the College and Beyond Survey, a colossal database of 75,000 students who enrolled in 34 colleges in 1951, 1976, and 1989. Such a rich ...