Between the great American universities that train the country's elites and a significant part of their fellow citizens, mistrust has reached an unprecedented level. The president of Harvard, accused of appeasing an anti-Semitic campaign on her campus after the Hamas attacks, and suspected of plagiarism, has been forced to resign. The matter is serious because the history of these places where the future elites of the world superpower study is the very history of America since the seventeenth century.
The country's first university, Harvard, was founded in 1636, just sixteen years after the Mayflower arrived in Plymouth Bay. Education was a priority for the Puritans who created the colony of Massachusetts. These dissident Protestants, breaking with official Anglicanism, intended to train a clergy and civil elite educated according to their doctrine. The site chosen for the university was, at the time, a significant distance from Boston, by virtue of a pedagogical choice...
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