Harvard et les enfants de présidents américains

Malia Obama a été admise à l'université Harvard. La célèbre institution a encadré bon nombre de membres de familles présidentielles, retour sur ces séjours avec l'historien Joshua Kendall. S'ils sont nombreux à avoir fréquenté Harvard, ils ont parfois déçu...

 "That fall, when the John Quincy Adams, then secretary of state, learned that both John and Charles Francis were underperforming—John was 45th out of 85th in the junior class—he told them not to come home to Washington for the Christmas break. “I could feel nothing but sorrow and shame in your presence,” he wrote. But when John rose to 16th, Adams made a new demand, insisting that he would not attend graduation unless his son made it into the top five. In the end, John was expelled late in his senior year for participating in a campus-wide protest known as “the Great Rebellion” of 1823 and never received his diploma—at least not in his lifetime. Fifty years later, Harvard would award the family his belated A.B. Charles Francis stepped up his efforts and graduated on time in 1825. Four decades later, after serving as the ambassador to Britain, this Boston Brahmin was offered the Harvard presidency, but he turned it down."

  http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/malia-obama-harvard-first-children-history-213878