Let me tell you, here and now, that unless you young men and young women come to have this characteristic, your lives are going to fall far short of the best and noblest achievement possible.
Washington warns that without developing a sense of responsibility, young people will not achieve their full potential.
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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.
We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.
Despite superficial and temporary signs which might lead one to entertain a contrary opinion, there was never a time when I felt more hopeful for the race than I do at the present.
This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.