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“I can’t say that I think Hayes had a particular political legacy; he tends to blur together with other Gilded Age political leaders,” said American history professor Rachel C. St. John.
Just two months into his first year at Harvard, in 1843, Hayes wrote in his diary, “What am I doing to prepare myself for the life struggle upon which I am soon to enter? What training of the faculties have I submitted to, to give them that...
If Hayes, like Obama, learned nothing of practical use to the real world, what did he do with his time at Harvard?
Though Hayes did some work for class, he found “reading for authorities like feeding on narcotics. The stimulus is too great for a healthy stomach, agreeable and exciting at first, but speedily followed by satiety and disgust.”
Like students today, Hayes found a way around having to do all his reading—through the 19th-century equivalent of SparkNotes.