 After his education in a series of government schools, his intellectual ambition, academic performance, and personal qualities brought him in 1901 to the private Mount Hermon Preparatory School (now Northfield Mount Hermon School) in Massachusetts.He financed his education through the school's work-study program and was introduced to the social circles of America's ruling elite.He graduated a salutatorian in 1906 and the school served as his conduit into the Ivy League.