I hope that you are learning, day by day, that all kinds of labour--whether with the mind or with the hand--are honourable, and that people only disgrace themselves by being and keeping in idleness.
Washington advocates for the honor of all forms of labor and the importance of avoiding idleness.
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This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.
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.
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