Booker T. Washington: “These meetings, it seems to me, enable me to get at the very heart of all that concerns the school.”

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

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.

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