Education
Shaw followed his father's educational footsteps, first attending the George Washington Copp Noble School (which had been renamed the Noble and Greenough School in 1892) and later attending Harvard University, graduating in 1909. Shaw's younger cousins, future murderer Louis Agassiz Shaw II and future 55th Governor of Massachusetts and United States Senator, Leverett Saltonstall, also pursued the same academic path. Shaw continued to study for a couple of years after graduation, taking classes in botany, geology, and zoology. He contracted tuberculosis in the summer of 1911, and was consequently unable to work until the spring of 1913.
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