Answer:
Describes universities like Harvard and can be poisonous.
My first is an insect; my second is a border; my whole puts the face in a tuneful disorder.
Has no feet, but travels far. Is literate, but not a scholar. Has no mouth, yet clearly speaks.
What word starts with 'E', ends with 'E', but only has one letter? It is not the letter 'E'.
I cost no money to use, or conscious effort to take part of. And as far as you can see, there is nothing to me. But without me, you are dead.
I’m grown from darkness but shine with a pale light. Very round I am and always a lady's delight.