Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity must it not be our ambition to become men?

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.