When you go out into the world and meet with such cases as this, try to make the people see that it is a great deal better to call their small public school by a name which truly represents it, than to call it a high-school or an academy.
Washington encourages individuals to advocate for honest naming of schools to better represent their true nature.
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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?
If my life in the past has meant anything in the lifting up of my people and the bringing about of better relations between your race and mine, I assure you from this day it will mean doubly more.
This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.
This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.