College Men at War

Authors: William B Bean

Publish Date: 1959/01/01

Volume: 103, Issue: 1, Pages: 165-166

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Abstract

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has made a handsome volume in publishing the late John P Monks painstaking and detailed study of what happened to a small group of college students who had already been selected for a different kind of longterm investigation in the Grant Study at Harvard When they joined the armed forces in World War II there was a unique opportunity for using human material men who before going into their several fighting stations had been studied by the same psychiatric psychological physiological anthropological and social methods This provided the baseline data as a standard for comparison The purpose of the study reported in the book was to find out if possible what kind of college men did well at war and why Were volunteers better than conscripts What happened to different kinds of people under the frustrating regimentation of a completely unfamiliar military existence

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