But to-day, especially in the South, many a little institution that opens its doors and calls itself a college or a university, is beginning to confer degrees, and make doctors of divinity of persons who are unworthy of degrees.
Washington warns against the trend of institutions conferring degrees without merit, particularly in the South.
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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.
How shall we make the mansion on yon Beacon Street feel and see the need of the spirits in the lowliest cabin in Alabama cotton-fields or Louisiana sugar-bottoms?
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.