Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Achivimba nemari yakapihwa nevavakidzani, Du Bois akapinda Fisk University, koreji yevatema munhoroondo muNashville, Tennessee, kubva muna 1885 kusvika muna 1888. Kufamba kwake uye kugara kwake kumaodzanyemba kwaive chiitiko chekutanga chaDu Bois neSouthern rusaruraganda, iyo panguva iyoyo yaisanganisira mitemo yaJim Crow, rusaruro, kudzvinyirira kuvhota kwevatema, uye kuuraya vanhu; yekupedzisira yakasvika pakakwirira mumakore gumi anotevera. Pashure pokugamuchira dhigirii reBachelor kubva kuFisk, akapinda Harvard College (iyo yakanga isingagamuchiri zvikwereti zvekosi kubva kuFisk) kubva muna 1888 kusvika muna 1890, kwaakafuridzirwa zvikuru napurofesa wake William James, akakurumbira muuzivi hweAmerica. Du Bois akabhadhara makore ake matatu kuHarvard nemari yaaiwana pamabasa ezhizha, nhaka, zvikoro, uye zvikwereti zvaaipiwa neshamwari. Muna 1890, Harvard yakapa Du Bois dhigirii rake rechipiri, cum laude, munhoroondo. Muna 1891, Du Bois akagamuchira bhezari kuti apinde chikoro chekupedza kudzidza muHarvard. Muna 1892, Du Bois akagamuchira chikoro kubva kuJohn F. Slater Fund yeDzidzo yeVasunungurwa kuti vapinde muYunivhesiti yeBerlin kuti vapedze basa. Paakanga ari mudzidzi muBerlin, akafamba zvikuru muEurope yose. Akakura mupfungwa muguta guru reGermany paaidzidza nevamwe vezvesayenzi vezvemagariro evanhu vakakurumbira vomunyika iyoyo, kusanganisira Gustav von Schmoller, Adolph Wagner, naHeinrich von Treitschke. Akanyora nezvenguva yake muGermany kuti: "Ndakazviwana ndiri kunze kwenyika yeAmerica, ndichitarira mukati. Ndakanga ndiine vanhu vachena - vadzidzi, vazivikanwi, vadzidzisi - avo vakaona chiitiko chacho neni. Havana nguva dzose kumbomira kundirangarira somunhu anoshamisira, kana kuti chimwe chinhu chisiri chomunhu; ndaingova bedzi munhu womugariro womudzidzi ane maropafadzo, uyo ivo vaifara kusangana naye nokutaura pamusoro penyika; zvikurukuru, rutivi rwenyika rwandakabva". Mushure mokudzoka kubva kuEurope, Du Bois akapedza zvidzidzo zvake; muna 1895 akava munhu wokutanga weAfrica wokuAmerica kuwana Ph.D. kubva kuHarvard University.  Mubvunzo: Du Bois akashanda nemasayendisiti api ezvemagariro evanhu?
Gustav von Schmoller, Adolph Wagner, uye Heinrich von Treitschke