Excerpt from The Record of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, Vol. 48: Spring, 1972 I would like to touch on a slightly different side of liberal arts education today. In fact, it has really become a taboo side of college life - so much so that over the last few years every time there seems to be some dramatic change in university or college life, people seem to want to come up with some very involved concepts to avoid looking at this particular subject. For an example of what I mean, look back about two years and recall what an extraordinary thing the idea of the counterculture was in this country. Two years ago there really was abroad in the land, certainly in all the universities and colleges, the idea that there was now a coalition of the young, the hip, the black in this country, which was going to break off from the society at large and form an alternate society and cause absolutely extraordinary changes in this country - and that it was bound to win, because time was on its side. Two years ago there was a statistic that was mentioned continually. Half of the United States was now under the age of twenty-five. There was also the belief that suddenly a new creature had been Groovy Mutant. This notion was not confined to people undertwenty-five. It was widely believed. I remember being invited just about eighteen months ago to Los Angeles to something that was called a Counterculture Convention for American Business. The idea was that all these people under the age of twenty-five which made up about half of the country were really a race of mutants who had kind of developed in the algae at forty fathoms, and they were coming up and they were coming in the windows, in waves, coming in behind you. And if you were an American business man and you wanted to continue to be able to sell your Thorn moan shoes and your Lady Manhattan shirts and your Ban underarm and your Right Guard and all the rest of those marvelous things - that you had better understand these new creatures. So the idea was to have this convention in Los Angeles at which all business men in America could assemble and could find out what the mutants were like, and I was invited to this thing because, I discovered, I was considered to be the renegade cowboy of the youth culture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.