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room. rememined for the thing
vhich is better done than the
average, and there IS always
room for the person who can do
a better job than the average
person.; and anyone in a minority
group has got To strive to do a
better job, not just for himself as
an Individual. but because it is
going to help the whole group
that he belongs to and because it
is going to have an effect on what
I'll the others are doing to be able
20 do: and every time we fail
every time We do not our best,
we don't help if we did ourselves
down, we let down all the others
thot might help if we did our best
and If we did succeed.
$50. in making your place, in
seeking the place which you eaa
hold a position she has got to be
better than a man would be who
would be going to hold that same
position; ami if she fails, she is
not going to fail alone, just as an
individual, but is going TO hurt
other women who try to hold that
same position for a long time. |
think we women have learned that
that is the case.
minority groups are in very
much the same position that
women are in. There Is always
fill in the community, remember
that it will require the best that
is in you 1t will require you to
do the best, while you r here, IN
preparation. Il will require you To
learn all YOU can of practical
things. of academic things; but,
everything else, it will re
quire character. No me can sue
ceed without character. 1t is the
most important preparation that
any Of US can have, to learn to
control ourselves and to force our
selves 10 do the best that IS in
US. instead Of being content to get
by. A great many of the young
people who came to my house
frequently tell me that they are
all right in school on in college
Oh, yes. they get by-and I Always
long to tell them that thew may
get by in college in their examin-
ations or with their fellof stu
dents who are their fellow stu
in life it is not good enough to get
by. You will have to do a great
deal better than that, if YOU are
going to contribute something to
the community in which you live
and to the demoerack which today
is o ntrial as a form of govern
ment in the world"
At the conclusion Of the adj
dress. while the audience was Civ
ing Mrs. Roosevelt an ovation, a
Young oma student presented
her with a mammoth bouquet. Be
fore she could conclude her
thanks, group of students uncover
ed the stand before which she
had been speaking. 1t was, un-
to her, a replica of the desk
used by Washington in New York
to be a gift from General
Lafayette.
Made in the Hampton Institute
School, President Howe
presented it to her and President
Roosevelt.
The Rev. DIR. Chester B. Elmer
son. for the Board of Trustees,
delivered a brief but impressive
charge to the classes which will
graduate next month.
Immediately after the exercises
in Ogden Hall. Mrs. Roosevelt was
taken TO a reviewing stand, erect
ed for her, and witnessed IRE
treat" by the battalion. the cadets
passing in review before her.
Mrs. Roosevelt's coming brought
a most notable party from the
and other points in the
country, including the wife of the
Secretary of the Treasury, Mrs.
Henry w. Morgenthau. Jr.; Pres.
and Mrs. H. N. McCracken of
Vassar College, Mrs. Malvinia
Schrider and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Bye of Washington d. &C. This
anniversary was one of the great
est in the history of Hampton In
stitute.