W.E.B Du Bois

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             During his Fisk years, he learned about black people better because he went and worked in a poor black town during a summer. So going to Harvard he knew what to expect and was not hurt or turned away by the unfriendliness of his white colleagues. His experiences on the glee club also helped him cope with racism. He was able to still strive high in school and get good grades though when he tried to join student organizations, they rejected him. .
             If Du Bois had went to Harvard he wouldn't have prepared to go through rough racial times and could have had the motivation to wait and not succeed through college at Harvard. One time he when he was over a teacher's house he though he was going to eat dinner with this man but to his astonishment ate after. Nevertheless, through a little of what he thought was bad luck, he was able to see the world for what it really was preparing him for college.
             Du Bois went to Harvard but wanted nothing of it but education. He felt that Fisk was his true Alma Mater. "I never felt myself to be a Harvard man as I felt myself a Fisk man. I was coming to Harvard for a particular purpose---to try to further the education that I had received at Fisk, to work by myself, and to seek no contact with my fellows. If they wanted to know me, the effort would be on their part. Out of a class of 300, I don't suppose that I knew ten really, intimately at all," was what Du Bois said in his wife's book Du Bois: A Pictorial Biography. .
             He also stats in his book Dusk Of Dawn " I asked nothing of Harvard but the tutelage of teachers and the freedom of the library. I was quite voluntarily and willingly outside its social life. I knew nothing of it and cared nothing for fraternities and clubs. Most of those that dominated the Harvard life of my day were unknown to me even by name. I asked no fellowship of my fellow students." He did have a social life with the people of the town but just not in Harvard.