Booker T. Washington: “You must learn to be able to do such things before you leave here, in order that you may be of some use to yourself and…”

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 more I come into contact with wealthy people, the more I believe that they are growing in the direction of looking upon their money simply as an instrument which God has placed in their hand for doing good with.

This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.