ADDRESS OF ROSCOE CONKLING BRUCE OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE AT THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF THE M STREET HIGH SCHOOL METROPOLITAN A. M. E. CHURCH WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 16, 1903 Copyright 1903 C. W. B. Bruce Tuskegee Institute Steam Print....

When George William Curtis had received from Harvard her greatest degree, he arose at the Alumni Dinner and said, “In the old Italian story the nobleman turns out of the hot street crowded with eager faces into the coolness and silence of his palace. As he looks at the pictures of the long line of ancestors he hears a voice,—or is it his own heart beating?—which says to him noblesse oblige . The youngest scion of the oldest house is pledged by all the virtues and honor of his ancestry to a life