I want you, as you go out from this institution, whether you are graduates or not, whether you have been here one year or four years--to go out with the idea that you must set a high example for every one in your community.
Washington urges graduates to set a positive example in their communities after leaving the institution.
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The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.
Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.
In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…
These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.