【正文】 will understand the difference between information and wisdom, who will pose the questions, and create the knowledge that can address the world’s problems, who can situate today’s realities in the context of the past even as we prepare for the universities have been deeply affected, as events have reshaped the educational landscape in the United States and cost of higher education has bee the source of even greater anxiety for American a time when college matters more than ever, it seems increasingly less to higher education is a national priority, and at Harvard we have significantly enhanced our financial aid policies to make sure that Harvard is attainable for talented students regardless of their financial is fundamental to sustaining Harvard’s than 60% of undergraduates received financial aid from Harvard this year。knowledge, he emphasized, is societies, cultures and beliefs vary in ways that affect us ever more the world is flat, it is far from must embrace the breadth of ideas and opportunities unfolding across the world, and at the same time advance understanding of the differences among distinctive cultures, histories and am repeatedly struck when I meet with undergraduates at the intensity of their interest in language courses, which at Harvard now include nearly 80 undergraduates understand the kind of world they will live in, and they want to be member of the class of 2011, who will be a Marshall scholar next year, told me about how she took up the study of Chinese at Harvard and when she traveled abroad recognized how speaking the language transformed her relationship to those she met.“When you learn a language,” she said, “you get Chinese have different kinds of conversations with people in their own language … we’re going to grow up in the world together in countries with such intertwined are,” she concluded, “an international generation.”In these past four years, Harvard has reached into the world, and the world has reached into Harvard as never have traveled as Harvard president on five have met with thousands of the more than 50,000 Harvard alumni who live outside the United States, and I have visited Harvard initiatives that address issues from AIDS in Botswana to preschool education in Chile to Renaissance studies in Italy to disaster response in new Harvard Center Shanghai joins 15 offices supporting Harvard faculty and student research and engagement have over the past several years launched the universitywide China Fund, the South Asia Initiative, and an enhanced African Studies effort that recently received a coveted Title VI recognition as a National Resource experiences abroad have more than doubled since School field studios reach from the favelas of Sao Paolo to the townships of Mumbai, and Harvard’s clinical and research opportunities in medicine and public health range from tuberculosis in Siberia to adolescent health in in Cambridge, teaching incorporates an enhanced global perspective, from newly required international legal studies at the Law School to an international immersion experience beginning next year for all MBA students at the Business School, where 40% of case studies now have a significant international we benefit from an increasingly international faculty and student body — 20% of our degree students it is not just knowledge that knows no world’s most critical challenges are most often borderless as well, and it is these pressing problems that attract the interest and talents of so many in our are critical resources in addressing issues from economic growth to global health, to sustainable cities, to privacy and security, to borrow a phrase from the Business School mission statement, Harvard faculty and students want to “make a difference in the world” by creating and disseminating critical we increasingly understand how to bring the elements of knowledgecreation together by crossing intellectual and disciplinary boundaries just as we cross international speak often of “one university,” for it is clear that we work most effectively when we unite Harvard’s unparalleled strengths across its schools and fields — and do so at every stage of the educational process, from College freshmen through our most acplished senior faculty new Harvard Global Health Institute is a case in point, engaging more than 250 faculty from across the university in addressing issues that range from postearthquake response in Haiti and Chile to reducing cardiovascular disease in the developing have established an undergraduate secondary field in Global Health, and over 1,000 College students are involved in courses, internships and related , the Harvard Center for the Environment draws on graduate and undergraduate students and more than a hundred faculty, in law, engineering, history, earth sciences, medicine, health policy and business — to look prehensively at problems like carbon capture and sequestration, or the implications of the Gulf oil spill for structures of environmental brings us finally to innovation, a third powerful force in higher education — and in the wider world in which higher education plays such an important and faculty working together in new ways and across disciplines, are developing wondrous things — from inhalable chocolate to inhalable tuberculosis undergraduates have invented a soccer ball that can generate enough power to light villages。去年登上這個講臺的是，她最早是一個古典文學(xué)的學(xué)生。要知道，在學(xué)術(shù)上，我是我們家的異類。消息公布的那天早上，我給她打電話，她聽了只說：?這是好消息，不過我想知道，你下次什么時候來看我？?如今在我們兄弟當中，我最終也拿到了哈佛學(xué)位，我想這一次，她會感到滿意。在科學(xué)中，第一個發(fā)現(xiàn)者是重要的，但是在得到公認前，最后一個做出這個發(fā)現(xiàn)的人也許更重要。?那么為什么畢業(yè)典禮的演說者，就不適用同樣的標準呢？我還要指出一點，向哈佛畢業(yè)生發(fā)表演說，對我來說是有諷刺意味的，因為如果當年我斗膽向哈佛大學(xué)遞交入學(xué)申請，一定會被拒絕。?我分不清兩者到底有何差別。剛才是第一樂章——輕快的閑談。?所以，下面就是我的忠告。你還要去擁抱你的同學(xué)，感謝他們同你進行過的許多次徹夜長談，這為你的教育帶來了無法衡量的價值。在任何談判中，都把最后一點點利益留給對方。電影《Harvey》中，Jimmy Stewart扮演的角色Elwood ，就完全理解這一點。你們可以引用我這句話。我在你們這個年齡，是超級的一根筋，我的目標就是非成為物理學(xué)家不可。當你白發(fā)蒼蒼、垂垂老矣、回首人生時，你需要為自己做過的事感到自豪。我對貝爾實驗室的看法，可以引用Mary Poppins的話，?實際上十全十美?。他也是從伯克利分校去了貝爾實驗室，幾年前又離開貝爾實驗室去了斯坦福大學(xué)。如果生命中只