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Henry David Thoreau Building An Educational Foundation At Harvard University

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  Henry David Thoreau,
  Building An Educational Foundation At Harvard University
  
  
  Henry David Thoreau, one of liturature's greatest writers, attended and later graduated from Harvard University. It can be said that Henry David Thoreau built an educational foundation at Harvard University, but that it is he who, in later years developed his abstract mind. While Henry attended Harvard University he learned the valuable lesson of exactness, the accuracy, and care for meaning which is the essence of scholarship. However what we see as greatness in his writing's, is creativity and expression, of which, Henry learned none at Harvard University.
  The faculty at Harvard University during the 1830's did not consist of the award-winning scholars that it does today. Professor Webster, the chemist and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were two of Harvard's then Faculty that eventually become well know for their works. Edward Tyrell Channing was a prominent member of the Harvard faculty during Henry's time there, however, he was never known for being anything other than a great teacher of rhetoric. Another prominent difference in the Harvard of today is that in Henry's time Harvard was a small and lifeless school that cost approximately $179.00 a year for tuition. Today Harvard is considered one of the liveliest Ivy League Schools in America and the cost of tuition has risen dramatically...