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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