In fact, I consider that there is nothing so empty and unsatisfactory as mere abstract public speaking; but from my early childhood I have had a desire to do something to make the world better, and then to be able to speak to the world about that thing.
He describes his lifelong ambition to effect positive change and then communicate about those efforts.
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We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.
This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.
By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.
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.