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Teddy Roosevelt: “If a college education means anything, it means fitting a man to do better service than he could do without it.”

On the recordJune 24, 1902
If a college education means anything, it means fitting a man to do better service than he could do without it.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Harvard Commencement Dinner in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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