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 ...

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.

The youngest son of Abigail and John Adams, Thomas Boylston upheld the family tradition of going to Harvard and then into law, albeit reluctantly. In 1793 he was admitted to the Philadelphia bar ...