Booker T. Washington: “An over-desire for these things shows a shallowness in us which makes us ridiculous.”

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

This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.

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.

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.