He entered Lincoln College, Oxford, intending to earn a Ph.D in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer Geisel, married her in 1927, and went to the United States without earning the degree. The "Dr." in his pen name is an acknowledgment of his father's unfulfilled hopes that Seuss would earn a doctorate at Oxford.
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He entered Lincoln College, Oxford, intending to earn a Ph.D in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer Geisel, married her in 1927, and went to the United States without earning the degree. The "Dr." in his pen name is an acknowledgment of his father's unfulfilled hopes that Seuss would earn a doctorate at Oxford.
He went to school in Springfield Massachusetts; graduating from Springfield Central High School. He then went to Dartmouth College and Oxford University to get a Doctorate in Philosophy of Literature.