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The "Great Good Place" (September-October 2001) (2334 words) |
 | Harvard University hadn't been my first choice for post-graduate English studies, and I wouldn't have been there if the University of London had admitted me without time-consuming conditions. |
| Tuition at Harvard was $400 a term, quite a lot in the 1930s, but my dwindling inheritance would pay for a degree in English literature. |
| Acolytes of an elite Harvard brotherhood, they revered and feared their famously rude teachers and regarded their academy as at once a kind of purgatory and a guarantor of better things to come. |
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Harvard - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Harvard (233 words) |
| Harvard is primarily agricultural, the most important produce being apples, and was incorporated in 1732. |
| Harvard was the site of ‘Fruitlands’, a short-lived utopian community founded in 1843 by US educator, mystic, and author Bronson Alcott, and now a museum. |
| Individuals had come from the rich establishment at Lebanon, from Canterbury, Harvard, and Alfred, and from all the other localities where this strange people have fertilized the rugged hills of New England by their systematic industry. |
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