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Famous quotes containing the words harvard university, harvard and/or university:

    “Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises very well, considering we never controlled him much.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “The slime pool that the dog drowned in . . .
    A drunk vomiting up a teaspoon of bile . . .
    Washing the polio off the grapes when I was ten . . .
    A Harvard book bag in Rome . . .”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”
    —Allan Bloom (1930–1992)