Emphasis Preaching Journal

It's a great story and probably true. College student Herbert Hoover (in the first-ever class of Stanford University) engaged the newly risen piano virtuoso Ignace Jan Paderewski to come to Stanford and present a piano concert. Hoover and a fellow student promised a stated amount of money to Paderewski; the students would sell tickets expecting to make a profit for themselves for room and board in college. The total sales fell short, but the pianist was great in spirit. He told young Hoover not to worry, to keep all the ticket money they had taken in.