Excerpt from Conditions of Success in Public Life: An Address Delivered in Sanders Theatre Before the Students of Harvard University, Honor Day, Nov, 21, 1900
I Certainly do not come here to preach. It was the fashion many years ago to ask men in public life to the colleges at the Commencement season to deliver orations on the scholar's mission, or the relation of educated men to the State, or the higher education, or various kindred topics. They used sometimes to take advantage of the occasion to pay back the criticism which they get so abundantly from the University, when the scholar of the University gives his opinion upon matters in which he is no scholar, and the man in political life returns the compliment by giving educators his opinion about matters in which he has no education.
In general, the young men spent the hour devoted to the address outside on the grass or on the chains or the fence, while the speaker was listened to inside by their mothers, and grandmothers, and aunts. I am proud to say these ladies used to declare themselves to be much gratified by the sentiments of the discourse. But I have long withdrawn from that field of labor.
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