I had never sought or cared for what the world calls fame. I have
always looked upon fame as something to be used in accomplishing good.
I have often said to my friends that if I can use whatever prominence
may have come to me as an instrument with which to do good, I am
content to have it. I care for it only as a means to be used for
doing good, just as wealth may be used. The more I come into contact
with wealthy people, the more I believe that they are growing in the
direction of looking upon their money simply as an instrument which
God has placed in their hand for doing good with. I never go to the
office of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, who more than once has been
generous to Tuskegee, without being reminded of this. The close,
careful, and minute investigation that he always makes in order to be
sure that every dollar that he gives will do the most good -- an
investigation that is just as searching as if he were investing money
in a business enterprise -- convinces me that the growth in this
direction is most encouraging.
At nine o'clock, on the morning of June 24, I met President Eliot,
the Board of Overseers of Harvard University, and the other guests, at
the designated place on the university grounds, for the purpose of
being escorted to Sanders Theatre, where the Commencement exercises
were to be held and degrees conferred.
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