THE BELOIT UNIVERSITY REVIEW OF THE GENERATIONS.

THE BELOIT UNIVERSITY REVIEW OF THE GENERATIONS. Kids, this annual reminder of the world that college freshmen have lived in is directed more to older folks, but if you reverse the items on the lists, you will get an idea of what people took for granted back in the day. I have always been fascinated by each new generation’s view of current history. That is, a college freshman now is as far removed (19 years) from the fall of the Iron Curtain as a college freshman in 1964 was from the end of World War II. And World War I was in the distant past in 1960; now the end of World War II is as far away as the Spanish American War was then.