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哈佛校长2016年毕业典礼演讲
Greetings, alumni, graduates, families, and friends.It is such a pleasure to see you all here and offercongratulations on this day of celebration.I am in the unenviable role of warm-up act for one ofthe greatest storytellers of ourtime.Neverthele, my aignment is to offer a fewreflections on this magnificent institution at this moment in its history.And what a moment it is!From comments of astonished pundits on television, in print, and online, to conversations withbewildered friends and colleagues, the question seems unavoidable and mesmerizing: What is goingon? What is happening to the world? The tumultuous state of American politics, spotlighted in thiscontentious presidential contest;the political challenges around the globe from Brazil to Brexit;theMiddle East in flames;a refugee crisis in Europe;terrorists exploiting new media to perform chillingacts of brutality and murder;climate-related famine in Africa and fires in Canada.It is as if we arebeing visited by the horsemen of the apocalypse with war, famine, natural disaster and, yes, evenpestilencefrom smallpox in the 17th century tothe devastating flu of 1918 to the H1N1 virus just a few years ago.Harvard has not just survivedthese challenges, but has helped to confront them.We sing in our alma mater about “Calm risingthrough change and through storm.” What does that mean for today's crises? Where douniversities fit in this threatening mix? What can we do? What should we do? What must we do? We are gathered today in Tercentenary Theatre, with Widener Library and Memorial Churchstanding before and behind us, enduring symbols of Harvard's larger identity and purposes,testaments to what universities do and believe at a time when we have never needed them more.And much is at stake, for us and for the world.We look at Widener Library and see a great edifice, a backdrop of giant columns where photos aretaken and 27 steps are worn down ever so slightly by the feet of a century of students andscholars.We also see a repository of learning, with 57 miles of shelving at the heart of a librarysystem of some 17 million books, a monument to reason and knowledge, to the collection andpreservation of the widest poible range of beliefs, and experiences, and facts that fuel free inquiryand our constantly evolving understanding.A vehicle for Veritasin thepresent moment, as a basis for the informed decisions of individuals, societies, and nations;and forthe future, as the basis for new insight.As James Madison wrote in 1822, “a people who mean tobe their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.” Or as early20th-century civil rights activist Nannie Helen Burroughs put it, “education is democracy's lifeinsurance.” Evidence, reason, facts, logic, an understanding of history and of science.The ability to know, asformer dean Jeremy Knowles used to put it, “when someone is talking rot.” These are the bedrockof education, and of an informed citizenry with the capacity to lead, to explore, to invent.Yet thiscommitment to reason and truthseems increasingly aminority viewpoint.In a recent column, George Will deplored the nation's evident abandonment ofwhat he called “the reality principleeven when that proce is uncomfortable.Universities do not just storefacts;they teach us how to evaluate, test, challenge, and refine them.Only if we ourselves model acommitment to fact over what Stephen Colbert so memorably labeled as ”truthine“(and he alsoactually sometimes called it ”Veritasine!“), only then can we credibly call for adherence to suchstandards in public life and in a wider world.We must model this commitment for our students, as we educate them to embrace theseprinciplesnot just the quality of men and women's thoughts, but, asmy predeceor James Conant put it, ”the radiance of their deeds.“ The more than 1,100 Harvardand Radcliffe students, faculty, and alumni whose names are engraved on its walls gave their livesin service to their country, because they believed that some things had greater value than theirown individual lives.I juxtapose Widener Library and Memorial Church today because we need thequalities that both represent, because I believe that reason and knowledge must be inflected withvalues, and that those of us who are privileged to be part of this community of learning bearconsequent responsibilities.Now, it may surprise some of you to hear that this is not an uncontroversial aertion.For thismorning's ceremony, I wore the traditional Harvard presidential robewe see a remarkable enthusiasm, forexample, for the field of global health because it unites the power of knowledge and science with adeeply-felt desire to do good in the worlddoctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, philosophers,busine people, epidemiologists, public servants-into the world.For our youngest students, those just beginning to shape their adult lives, those who todayreceived what the ritual language of Commencement calls ”their first degree," for them, thesequestions of values and responsibility take on particular salience.Harvard College is a residentialcommunity of learning with a goal, in the words of its dean, of personal and social as well asintellectual transformation.Bringing students of diverse backgrounds to live together and learnfrom one another enacts that commitment, as we work to transform diversity into belonging.In aworld divided by difference, we at Harvard strive to be united by it.In myriad ways we challengeour students to be individuals of character as well as of learning.We seek to establish standards forthe College community that advance our institutional purposes and values.We seek to educatepeople, not just minds;our highest aspiration is not just knowledge, but wisdom.Reason and responsibility.Widener and Memorial Church.Harvard and the world.We have a veryspecial obligation in a very difficult time.May we and the students we send forth today embrace it.Thank you very much.
感谢凯蒂，感谢佛斯特校长、哈佛大学部成员、监事会、还有迎接我回校园的所有教职员工、校友和学生！能来到这里我很激动，不仅是因为我能在哈佛大学每363届毕业典礼上对优秀毕业......
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