This survey was carried out among Cambridge undergraduates try to chart changes in undergraduate opinion. The sample comprised around 15% of the undergraduate population of 1959.Note for usersThe data were converted from the original ASCII to SPSS in 2019. During the process, coding from Variable 333 onwards was found to be erroneous (i.e. the information in the User Guide did not match the data) or unknown. Variables in the data file have been labelled accordingly. Users should analyse these data with extreme caution. Education, academic performance, career aspirations, family background, sports played, society membership, newpaper and periodical readership, social life.