The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.

Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.