I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.
Washington encourages students to strive for perfection and strength in their studies.
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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.
By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.
The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.
This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.