One of the chief ambitions which spurred me on at Hampton was that I might be able to get to be in a position in which I could better make my mother comfortable and happy.
He recounts a primary motivation for his dedication to studies at Hampton Institute, linking it to his family.
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The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.
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.
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.