From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.
Washington reflects on his childhood, noting that it was entirely consumed by labor and expressing a belief that play might have made him more effective.
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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.
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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.