As David McCullough points out in his biography John Adams, the college then consisted of four buildings and seven faculty members. At Harvard, Adams cultivated his appetite for reading and ...

He quoted one friend as saying, "Why they speak of what they were doing at Harvard 275 years ago, that's an old college!" Professor Adams was also impressed by the masculinity of Harvard Square.

Challenges: John Quincy Adams was a Harvard graduate, an intellectual, a lover of the arts and sciences, and woefully out-of-step with the common people of America. Major Acts: John Quincy Adams’s ...

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, a farmer and deacon, hoped that Adams would enter the clergy, but his Harvard professors thought his propensity ...

Upon graduation from Harvard, Adams becomes schoolmaster ... but with no clear electoral college majority, John Quincy Adams is chosen president by the House of Representatives.

Adams Portraits Pre-empted "I was also ... Subscribe to our email newsletter. The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 ...