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Demonstrators with signs stand around the John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard following a rally against President Donald Trump’s attacks on Harvard University at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 17, 2025. | AFP file photo

Harvard students weave through tree-lined streets and redbrick campus buildings, but beneath the veneer of daily life fear has taken root: the most prestigious university in the United States is bracing for an ‘assault’ by president Donald Trump.

Since returning to the White House, Trump has targeted prestigious universities, alleging anti-Semitism and liberal bias—with Harvard a primary quarry.