Answer:
Describes universities like Harvard and can be poisonous.
When set loose I fly away. Never so cursed as when I go astray.
I grow where no flower grows, where no light touches the walls, up or down, that I don't care, was here before people were.
I am the outstretched fingers that seize and hold the wind. Wisdom flows from me in other hands. Upon me are sweet dreams dreamt, my merest touch brings laughter.
What is the freedom of birds and the pen of old men?
Special abilities and brightly colored underwear are all you need to be one of these.
Difficult
Animal
Easy
Food
Funny
Kids
Logic
What am I?