Especially since Harvard wasn't a place you went for the academics back then
It was still essentially a finishing school for wealthy, connected Eastern WASPs
Washington was a great man ofc but far outshined by the other members of the Revolutionary Generation in the brains dept--and he knew it! Hence, listening to Hamilton
FDR? lol, C- student at both his elite boarding school and Harvard, which means 'Fs' at a public secondary or State U
