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布克·T·华盛顿：力争上游·摘录 49
布克·T·华盛顿《力争上游》· Up from Slavery · 领导
The charge for my board at Hampton was ten dollars per month. I was expected to pay a part of this in cash and to work out the remainder. To meet this cash payment, as I have stated, I had just fifty cents when I reached the institution. Aside from a very few dollars that my brother John was able to send me once in a while, I had no money with which to pay my board. I was determined from the first to make my work as janitor so valuable that my services would be indispensable. This I succeeded in doing to such an extent that I was soon informed that I would be allowed the full cost of my board in return for my work. The cost of tuition was seventy dollars a year. This, of course, was wholly beyond my ability to provide. If I had been compelled to pay the seventy dollars for tuition, in addition to providing for my board, I would have been compelled to leave the Hampton school. General Armstrong, however, very kindly got Mr. S. Griffitts Morgan, of New Bedford, Mass., to defray the cost of my tuition during the whole time that I was at Hampton. After I finished the course at Hampton and had entered upon my lifework at Tuskegee, I had the pleasure of visiting Mr. Morgan several times.
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汉普顿学院每月食宿费十美元，要付一部分现金、其余靠做工抵。华盛顿到校时身上只有五毛钱，除了哥哥偶尔寄来几块钱，没有别的钱。他一开始就下决心把勤杂工做得不可替代，后来学校果然允许他全部用工作抵食宿。学费每年七十美元，他根本付不起，若必须自付就只能退学。阿姆斯特朗将军请马萨诸塞州新贝德福德的摩根先生替他付了全部学费，后来华盛顿还多次去拜访道谢。核心是：先把自己能做的做到极致，再坦然接受别人的帮助并记恩。
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华盛顿在自传中细说汉普顿学院的费用，以及资助人摩根先生如何帮他完成学业。
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