The Harrad Experiment
Book description
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…
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Almost everyone I know read this risque novel about the supposed sexual experiment of a school creating not just coed dorms, but coed roommates. I think any book one remembers vividly from having read it back in high school deserves some sort of kudos, even if it might be just that it was so wildly salacious that it just stuck there.
However, I think it had something going for it in its ability to convey adolescent lust along with clinical overlay. Whatever the case, the combination offers up a truer vision of the undergraduate experience than most novels of its…
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