Booker T. Washington: “I felt a good deal as I suppose a man feels when he is on his way to the gallows.”

We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.

What is equally important, they are exhibiting a degree of common sense and self-control which is causing better relations to exist between the races, and is causing the Southern white man to learn to believe in the value of educating the…