ABSTRACT
In 1935, Theodore Newcomb, a young ~ocial psychologist at the newly founded Bennington College for women. assessed the attitudes of the entering class and other students toward a number of social issues. His research findings would hardly surprise anyone familiar with his students: These daughters from economically-privileged families in the 1930s arrived at college endowed not only with their families' means to pay for higher education but also with their families' political conservatism. Undeterred by the obviousness of these results, Newcomb continued his research, assessing the attitudes of each class just before they graduated.
