Booker T. Washington: “In plain words, then, the problem we must work out here is not:--Can you master algebra, or literature?”

By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.

This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.

We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.

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?