My message comes from millions of women now mostly past and gone. They lived in a single century; they endured, struggled, and suffered, almost unbelievably, in order that you, unborn in their day, might inherit privileges, opportunities and liberties for which they had so prayerfully longed, but were never permitted to know.
speech graduation legacy
Carrie Chapman Catt
Sweet Briar College Commencement 1936, 1936
A girl might marry a missionary or a traveler and go to strange lands, in which case a knowledge of maps and the names of cities, rivers, and the countries would be useful. Presumably, geography was included in the studies at Troy.
speech graduation education
Carrie Chapman Catt
Sweet Briar College Commencement 1936, 1936
Those who work for a great cause receive comforting satisfaction in the knowledge that they will leave the world better than they found it.
speech graduation purpose
Carrie Chapman Catt
Sweet Briar College Commencement 1936, 1936