Possible Clues:

• Angela Bassett's alma mater
• Kind of lock
• President Taft's alma mater
• Site of Hewitt Quad
• Where Noah Webster went
• Rory Gilmore's alma mater
• Jodie Foster alma mater
• Ivy near an Acela stop
• Home of the Peabody Museum of Natural History
• Lupita Nyong'o's alma mater