The Harrad Experiment
Robert H. Rimmer
<span>A new-age "experiment"
 takes place in the 1960s at Harrad College, a privately endowed and 
liberally run school that admits carefully selected students. This 
social experiment encourages premarital living arrangements and is 
totally committed - not mere lip-service or public-relations hype - to 
getting young men and women to think and act for themselves.<br><br>What
 do they think about? Everything that interests the author, Bob Rimmer: 
human relations, sex, history, philosophy, anatomy, existentialism, art,
 music, Zen, politics - and, once more, sex.<br><br>Four Harrad students
 record their thoughts regularly for four years. Their diaries include 
large chunks of college "action," conversation, and portraits of fellow 
students, so the reader is swept into the lives of these young adults 
trying to sort out the jumbled mores of America's Sixties.<br><br>Stanley
 Kolasukas, a bright, good-looking youth from a poor Polish family finds
 himself a roommate of Sheila Grove, the introspective daughter of an 
oil millionaire. Harry Schacht, a brilliant but ungainly medical student
 from an Orthodox Jewish background, lives with Beth Hillyer, a girl 
with enough drive to be a better doctor and enough sensuality to need 
many men in her life. Jack Dawes, imaginative and enthusiastic, lives 
with Valerie Latrobe, a dominant girl who believes she can better any 
man at anything.</span>