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 ...

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 ...

Harvard System Incomplete Professor Adams pointed out, however, that the Harvard tutorial system, due to its rapid organization and to the fact that it is superimposed on an educational system ...

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 ...