Answer:
Describes universities like Harvard and can be poisonous.
Useful tool for who in darkness dwell. Within you, corrupting like a deadly spell.
Some try to hide, some try to cheat. But time will show, we always will meet. Try as you might, to guess my name. I promise you'll know, when you I do claim.
Put into a pit, locked beneath a grate, guarded through the night, yet it still goes out.
What can be swallowed, But can also swallow you?
It's what light turns into in the night