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Andrew Carnegie:Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Additional Excerpt 440

Andrew Carnegie《Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie》· Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · Leadership

In connection with these institutions I came in contact with their officers and trustees--men like Principal Hollis B. Frissell of Hampton, Robert C. Ogden, George Foster Peabody, V. Everit Macy, George McAneny and William H. Baldwin--recently lost to us, alas!--men who labor for others. It was a blessing to know them intimately. The Cooper Union, the Mechanics and Tradesmen's Society, indeed every institution[52] in which I became interested, revealed many men and women devoting their time and thought, not to "miserable aims that end with self," but to high ideals which mean the relief and uplift of their less fortunate brethren.

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