This, I confess, was another pretty hard blow to me.

I will not say that I became discouraged, for as I now look back over my life I do not recall that I ever became discouraged over anything that I set out to accomplish.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

I determined to face the situation just as it was.

At the end of the week I went to the treasurer of the Hampton Institute, General J.F.B.Marshall, and told him frankly my condition.