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The following description is taken from an address by W. 1. Bates
on "History and Development of the Texas Medical Center," read before the
Texas ulf Coast Historical Association's First Annual Meeting, November 20,
1956:
"Mr. Anderson was typical of most great Americans. He started out in
life with a good American heritage and nothing more, save an early schooling
and lessons learned in hard work, thrift, and self-denial. To him the spend-
ing of money, except for a usefIl purpose, was distasteful and an evidence of
lack of good breeding. He had a wide acquaintance but was reticent, and had
the appearance of being shy and only a few knew him intimately. Those who
did greatly admired and loved him. He never married but was fond of home-
life and children and treated his brother's children as though they were his
own.
"'r. Anderson lived a simple and unostentatious life. He was guided
by a few simple basic principles which probably were responsible for the
greatness which he attained. To him it was axiomatic that neither an
individual nor the people as a whole could be happy or prosper without hard
work, thrift, and self-denial; that laziness and profligate spending in-
evitably lead to unhappiness and a sorry life. He refused to he rushed on
important matters, but insisted on time to meditate and think before making
decisions of consequence. He, like the Greek, believed in 'making haste
slowly'; that meditation often saves many false steps. Those who were close
to him now see wisdom in many of his acts which we did not arnreciate at
the time.
"He did not believe in personal charity for the individual except
for those that are afflicted. In his opinion, an individual sound in body
and mind who sought or accepted charity was not worthy of it. But he did
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Greenwood, James, Jr. Monroe Dunaway Anderson: Benefactor of Medicine and Mankind, text, October 5, 1964; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth822881/m1/15/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Moody Medical Library, UT.