Before going there I ...[thought] to secure an education meant to have a good, easy time, free from all necessity for manual labour. At Hampton I ... learned that it was not a disgrace to labour, but learned to love labour, ...for labour's own sake. ...I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.
