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Paul Christesen '88

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Happiness and the Classics

A hundred years ago about 75 percent of the bachelor’s degrees awarded in the United States were given to students who focused on the humanities. By the late 1960s that figure had declined to 18 percent; in the past 40 years it has gone to 8 percent.
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