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T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot working on his play The Cocktail Party in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, 1948. The letters of the alphabet in his diagram represent characters in the play. The Greek letters represent characters yet to be invented.
T.S. Eliot received a comprehensive education at several institutions:
- Secondary Schools: He attended Smith Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, and Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts.12
- University: He entered Harvard University in 1906, where he earned his B.A. in 1909. He later served as an assistant in philosophy at Harvard and returned for further graduate studies, including the study of Indian philosophy and Sanskrit. Although he completed a doctoral dissertation, he never took the final oral examination required for a Ph.D.12
- Additional Studies: During the 1910–11 academic year, he studied in France at the Sorbonne, where he attended lectures by the philosopher Henri Bergson.12