On the recordApril 18, 1902
Not one in a hundred of us is fit to be in the highest sense a productive scholar, but all of us are entirely fit to do decent service if we care to take the pains.
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presidency.ucsb.eduTeddy Roosevelt: “Not one in a hundred of us is fit to be in the highest sense a productive scholar, but all of us are entirely fit to do…”
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Remarks at the Banquet at Sherry's in Honor of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University in New York...
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