At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.
Washington recounts a profound moral lesson learned at Hampton Institute about the intrinsic link between unselfishness and true happiness.
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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.
In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.
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?
We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.