Which famous person who enrolled at Harvard said, “They could not make a student of me here, but they gave it their best”?

Robert Frost, a San Francisco native who had previously dropped out of Dartmouth after only two months, was then accepted for admission at Harvard in the fall of 1897. He studied liberal arts at the school in Cambridge Massachusetts. Two years after being a student, Frost, who had married and become a father just prior to enrolling at Harvard, specifically left school to support his growing family.

Also, it was stated that due to illness Dean Briggs halfway through the spring semester of his second year voluntarily let Frost leave Harvard without prejudice. Dean Briggs at the time lamented the loss of so good a student.

When Frost left the Ivy League school, he said: “They could not make a student of me here, but they gave it their best”. Later in his life, Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, and in 1937 Frost received an honorary degree from Harvard University.