Nothing is so disheartening--there is nothing so discouraging--as to see a man or woman settle down in a home, and then not to see that home grow more beautiful, inside and outside;--to see it, instead of this, each year grow dingy and dirty, because it each year receives less and less attention.
Washington warns against neglecting home life and encourages continuous improvement in one's living environment.
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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.
We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.
By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.