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Perhaps the most valuable thing that I got out of my second year was an understanding of the use and value of the Bible.
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Booker T. Washington
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gutenberg.orgPerhaps the most valuable thing that I got out of my second year was an understanding of the use and value of the Bible.
Washington identifies the Bible as a key source of understanding and value in his life.
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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.
We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.
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?
This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.