He was educated at private schools that placed great emphasis on the classics and on the mastery of Latin and Greek. His undergraduate years were marked more by social than by academic distinction, and he graduated from Harvard in 1871 without any definite career plans. He probably had other preoccupations. On the day after his graduation he married his cousin, Anna Cabot Mills Davis, daughter of Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis, and together he and his bride embarked on a year-long trip exploring the sights and societies of Europe.
It was at this point in his life that Lodge sought the advice of his former Harvard history teacher Henry Adams, who strongly urged upon him the choice of a "historico-literary" career, emphasizing the attractions of addressing the great questions--what men are and have been driving at--and concluding with the admonition that Lodge would have to work hard and master the new German historical method of diligent and careful research. Lodge appears to have sought to model his own career closely on that of Thomas Babington Macaulay, a course which permitted both literary and political pursuits.
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