Once graduating from Fisk, he attended Harvard off a scholarship and entered as a junior. He focused on philosophy and eventually into history. He gradually began to turn towards economics and social issues. Determined to attend and graduate from Harvard, he never felt apart of the school. In the the Massachusetts Review he states that “[He]was in Harvard for education and not for high marks” (Massachusetts Review 353). He earned his bachelor’s degree in 1890 and began working on his master’s and doctorate soon after. After completing his master’s degree, the President at the time, Rutherford B. Hayes, announced that could not find one black person worthy enough to study abroad. Out of anger, Du Bois applied straight to Hayes. With his credentials
