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Where was T.S. Eliot educated?

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T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) attended Smith Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, and Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1909. He spent 1910–11 in France at the Sorbonne and then returned to Harvard. By 1916 he had finished a dissertation but never took the final oral examination for the Ph.D.