Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

And you, men and women, who have had the advantages of a college training are not to be excused if you fail to do not as well as, but if you fail to do more than the average man outside who has not had your advantages.

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Remarks at Leland Stanford Jr. University in Palo Alto, California

05/11/1903

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