To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.

It differed from what an undergraduate receives today from any American college or university mainly in the certainty of what he was forced to learn compared with the loose and widely scattered information obtained today by most of our undergraduates.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

* 1964 – Kevin Sumlin, American college football coach

Carnegie also established large pension funds in 1901 for his former employees at Homestead and, in 1905, for American college professors.

" Bachelor " can also refer to those holding a " bachelor's degree " from a university ( or a four-year college, in the American system of higher education ).

* The American Association of Community Colleges has provided oversight on community college research since the 1920s.

Collegiate cheerleaders perform a high splits pyramid during a college American football | football game

It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.

An 1869 game of intercollegiate " football " between Rutgers and Princeton is often cited as the first intercollegiate American football game, however it was an unfamiliar ancestor of today's college football, as it was played under 6-year-old soccer-style Association rules.

Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college student to a youthful senior citizen in the 40 + years of the strip's daily existence.

* 1776 – At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American college fraternity.

* 1822 – Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American college president ( d. 1907 )

* 2009 – Foge Fazio, American college football coach ( b. 1938 )

Typical training for a North American endocrinologist involves 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, 3 years of residency, and 2 years of fellowship.

Although still in college, Sapir was allowed to participate in Boas ' graduate seminar on American Languages which included translations of Native American and Inuit myths collected by Boas.

* Antioch College-the result of American educator Horace Mann's dream to establish a college comparable to Harvard but with some notable differences.

The products of American high schools are illiterate ; and a degree from a famous college or university is no guarantee that the graduate is in any better case.

A study of American college students published in Nature showed that people are willing to pay to reduce inequality.

This means much to the American tradition.

Enthusiastically, Americans have swept subliterary and bogus materials like Paul Bunyan tales, Abe Lincoln anecdotes and labor union songs up as true products of our American oral tradition.

It is to this same tradition that most of the creative figures in the last century and a half of American theology also belong.

The term was popularized by G. L. Trager and Bernard Bloch in a 1941 paper on English phonology and went on to become part of standard usage within the American structuralist tradition.

The clambake as known today is a colonial interpretation of an American Indian tradition.

While it contains much in the way of Native American tradition, it should not be confused with the tribal beliefs of any community of native people.

* Paul Bunyan is a lumberjack figure in North American folklore and tradition.

The oldest musical tradition which fits under the label of Celtic fusion originated in the rural American south in the early colonial period and incorporated Scottish, Scots-Irish, Irish, English, and African influences.

Variously referred to as roots music, American folk music, or old-time music, this tradition has exerted a strong influence on all forms of American music, including country, blues, and rock and roll.

Precursors of the form existed by the 1920s, which saw a revival of the medieval woodcut tradition by Belgian Frans Masereel, American Lynd Ward and others.

The liberal conservative tradition in the United States combines the economic individualism of the classical liberals with a Burkean form of conservatism ( which has also become part of the American conservative tradition, such as in the writings of Russell Kirk ).

Major movements within American conservatism include support for tradition, law-and-order, Christianity, anti-communism, and a defense of " Western civilization from the challenges of modernist culture and totalitarian governments.

Mather's text thus is one of the more important documents in American history, because it reflects a particular tradition of seeing and understanding the significance of place.

Yarn drying after being dyed in the early American tradition, at Conner Prairie living history museum.

The eggs are hidden in a similar tradition to the American Easter egg hunt and when found the children ( and adults ) break them over each other's heads.

The influence of the Husserlian phenomenological tradition in the 21st century is extending beyond the confines of the European and North American legacies.

In the American armed forces, a lively tradition of jody calls (" Duckworth chants ") are sung while soldiers are on the march.

* 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, were able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.

Modern bullion coins for investment or collector purposes do not require good mechanical wear properties ; they are typically fine gold at 24k, although the American Gold Eagle and the British gold sovereign continue to be minted in 22k metal in historical tradition.

Contemporary American writers in this tradition include Joyce Carol Oates, in such novels as Bellefleur and A Bloodsmoor Romance and short story collections such as Night-Side ( Skarda 1986b ) and Raymond Kennedy in his novel Lulu Incognito.

In the North American Lutheran tradition, General Synod refers to a church body which existed from 1820-1918.

The first influences of African American Culture into hymns came from Slave Songs of the United States a collection of slave hymns complied by William Francis Allen who had difficulty pinning them down from the oral tradition, and though he succeeded, he points out the awe inspiring effect of the hymns when sung in by their originators.

The true forerunner of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights which appeared as part of the medieval Natural law tradition that became prominent during the Enlightenment with such philosophers as John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, and Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, and featured prominently in the political discourse of the American Revolution and the French Revolution.