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experienceand contemporary student life.It identifies enduring patterns in three areas:thesocial origins of students,student culture and activism,and the perceivedacademic quality of students.Reflecting their predominantly middle classbackgrounds,university students have craved social status and feared theprospect of downward mobility,particularly in hard economic times.They haveforged a student culture which serves to relieve academic tensions and strengthentheir claim to social distinctiveness.Sexist outbursts by male students,past andpresent,speak to fundamental feelings of insecurity in the face of feministmovements.Political activism among a sizable minority of students,whichpredated the 1960s,now shows signs of re-emergence at a time when studentssense that their long term goals may be frustrated.Finally,the professorialcontention that students are academicallyless competent than ever has been heardbefore.A historical perspective,brought to this and other issues,should deepenunderstanding of the nature of student life.  \n## RÉSUMÉ\n\nCet article étudie le rapport qui existe entre I'histoire vécue de I'étudiant et lanature de sa vie étudiante.L'auteur constate qu'il existe des comportementspersistants dépendant de trois facteurs:I'origine sociale de l'étudiant,sa cultureet son dynamisme,et enfin la facon dont il percoit sa valeur en tant qu'étudiant.Les étudiants universitaires,en grande majorité originaires de classes moyennes,sont à la recherche d'un statut social prestigieux et craignent de tomber dans uneclasse inférieure à celle dont ils sont issus,surtout àune epoque dificile du pointde vue économique.Ils se forgent des valeurs dont le but est de les soulager destensions liées aux études et de renforcer leurs prétentions de distinction sociale.Les éclats sexistes passés ou présents expriment le profond sentiment d'insécuritéque certains étudiants éprouvent vis-a-vis des mouvementsféministes.L'activismepolitique,anciennement associé aux annees soixante,semble renaitre dans une  \nminorité non négligeable d'étudiants du fait que ceux-ci sentent bien qu'ilsrisquent de ne pas parvenir à leurs fins a long terme.De plus,c'est un lieucommun,dans le corps professoral,d'affirmer que les étudiants sont de plus enplus médiocres.Sil'on étudie la questiond'unpoint de vue historique,tant dans cenuméro que dans ceux qui vont suivre,on devrait etre en mesure de mieuxcomprendre de quoi est faite la vie quotidienne des étudiants.  \nIn assessing the state of historical writing on Canadian universities,I concluded in1982 that the literature in general was analytically shallow,overly celebrationist,and still languishing on the margins of Canadian historiography.(Axelrod 1982).Even allowing for the arrogance of relative youth emanating from this evaluation,the verdict was judicious,if harsh,and not mine alone.(Reid 1984;Sheehan 1985;Berger 1986).  \nWhile it would be an exaggeration to declare that all has subsequently changedin the writing of university history,on balance,one can fairly conclude that thepast decade has been kind to this literary genre.Books and articles on universitylife tend no longer to focus exclusively and uncritically on the feats and foibles ofthe “great men”who administered the institutions.Historians instead probe withgreater depth and sophistication the intellectual and social milieux of higherlearning in Canada and elsewhere.Faculty and students are the subject ofincreasing interest.Women are no longer ignored.The importance of universitiesto class relations,economic conditions,youth culture,and regional life has beendiscovered and explored.The institutional histories and biographies of ex-university presidents,like that of Robert Falconer of the University of Toronto(byJames Greenlee),are richer and analytically more subtle than once was the case(G","cbCaimdsAoVEJnvs","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimdsAoVEJnvs","pdf",545160,12,"English","# ABSTRACT\n# Summary of historical relationship\n## Social 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