Editing Harry Crosby (section)

==Attends Harvard==
After returning from World War I, Crosby attended Harvard University in the spring of 1919 under an accelerated program for veterans. He took 19 courses, six in French (which he read and spoke fluently) and six in English literature. The remainder of his courses were in fine arts, music, Spanish, and social ethics. Taking his studies very lightly, he thought he was going to fail, and paid a knowledgeable man who was familiar with what questions would be asked on the examinations to tutor him. He graduated with a bachelor of arts in 1921.<ref name=keene>{{cite web|last1=Keene|first1=Ann T.|title=Crosby, Harry|url=http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-03507.html|website=American National Biography Online|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=15 June 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712143310/http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-03507.html|archive-date=12 July 2015}}</ref>

He yearned, though, to escape the rigidity of everyday life in Boston. His experience in France made it unbearable to live among what he called "dreary, drearier, dreariest Boston" and to put up with "Boston virgins who are brought up among sexless surroundings, who wear canvas drawers and flat-heeled shoes."<ref name=lyle/> He wanted to escape "the horrors of Boston and particularly of Boston virgins."<ref name=wolff/>{{rp|14}} Any sense of propriety was wiped out by a lust for living in the moment, forgetting all risks and possible consequences.<ref name=lyle/>