John Motley Morehead
UNC Class of 1891
“That’s That,” an address to the graduating class of Morehead Scholars. May 27, 1959.
Stay with it, play the game, play it according to the rules. If you get hurt, don’t holler; if you lose, pay up. Nobody can win all of the time.
Play it hard, for any machine—electrical, human or mechanical—shows its greatest efficiency when loaded closest to its capacity.
John Motley Morehead III during construction of Morehead Planetarium Chapel Hill, North Carolina.