【正文】 h For America：為美國而教，一個(gè)教育組織，旨在消除美國某些地區(qū)的教育不公平現(xiàn)象。通向有意義、幸福生活的必由之路是讓自己為之努力奮斗。直接去你想去的地方，如果車位已滿，再繞回來。某種意義上，這些是你們所有人早晚都會(huì)遇到的問題——當(dāng)你從醫(yī)學(xué)院畢業(yè)并選擇專業(yè)方向——是選全科家庭醫(yī)生還是選皮膚科醫(yī)生；當(dāng)你獲得法學(xué)學(xué)位之后，要選擇是去一家公司工作，還是做公共辯護(hù)律師；當(dāng)你在“為美國而教”進(jìn)修兩年以后，要決定是否繼續(xù)從事教育?！吧畹囊饬x”——是個(gè)大大的問題——又是老生常談——把它看成蒙提派森（7）的某部電影的諷刺標(biāo)題或者某一集《辛普森一家》（8）的主題就容易回答，但是當(dāng)作蘊(yùn)含嚴(yán)肅意義的話題就把問題復(fù)雜化了。你們反復(fù)問我的是：“為什么我們很多人都去了華爾街？為什么我們哈佛畢業(yè)生中，有那么多人進(jìn)入金融、咨詢行業(yè)和投資銀行？”要思考并回答這個(gè)問題，有很多方式。這所備受尊崇的學(xué)校歷來好學(xué)求知，所以你們期待我的演講能傳授永恒的智慧。譯者注：（1）Increase and Cotton：英克利斯和考特恩父子，都是著名清教徒牧師。你們?cè)谶x擇道路，同時(shí)又質(zhì)疑自己的選擇。調(diào)查表明，年長的人——比如我這個(gè)歲數(shù)的人——幸福感比年輕人更強(qiáng)。我們對(duì)你們寄予厚望，反而成了你們的負(fù)擔(dān)。但是，絕大多數(shù)人選擇了金融和咨詢，這與戈?duì)柖『涂ù牡恼{(diào)查結(jié)果不謀而合?！案Ｋ固匦ｉL，生活的意義是什么？我們?cè)诠鹂嘧x四年是為了什么？福斯特校長，從你四十年前大學(xué)畢業(yè)到現(xiàn)在，你肯定學(xué)到了不少東西吧？”（四十年了。we seek to be worthy of that pany, and to share our days with others similarly motivated and want to contribute as they have contributed in every imaginable want to know – to understand – societies, governments, eras, organizations, galaxies, works of art and literature, structures, circuits, diseases, want to make our lives want to improve the human condition and build a better want Harvard to ask that of us, to expect that of us and to equip us to acplish shapes our institutional ideals as well as our individual a history diminishes the grip of the myopic present, helping us to see beyond its bounds, to transcend the immediate in search of the challenges us to place our aspirations and responsibilities within the broadest context of expect the future to be as long as the past。其實(shí)，從我與校委會(huì)見面時(shí)起，就一直被問到這些問題，當(dāng)時(shí)是2007年冬天，我的任命才宣布不久。另一些人則認(rèn)為先要利己才能利人。只能選一個(gè)選項(xiàng)——工作、職業(yè)、讀研——都意味著要放棄其他選項(xiàng)。但是，不論是繪畫、生物還是金融，如果你不去嘗試做你喜歡的事；如果你不去追求你認(rèn)為最有意義的東西，你會(huì)后悔的。人文教育要求你們自覺地生活，賦予你尋找和定義所做之事的內(nèi)在意義的能力。（3）Veritas：拉丁文，真理，也是哈佛大學(xué)校訓(xùn)?；蛟S我們可以互換一下角色，用哈佛法學(xué)院教授們隨機(jī)點(diǎn)名提問的方式，讓我在接下來的一個(gè)小時(shí)里回答你們的問題（4）。確實(shí)如此，你們中有37個(gè)人已經(jīng)和“為美國而教”簽約（5）；有一個(gè)會(huì)去跳探戈，去阿根廷研究舞蹈療法；還有一個(gè)將投身于肯尼亞的農(nóng)業(yè)發(fā)展；一個(gè)拿了數(shù)學(xué)榮譽(yù)學(xué)位的人要去研究詩歌；另一個(gè)要去美國空軍受訓(xùn)當(dāng)飛行員；還有一個(gè)要與乳癌作斗爭。你們?yōu)槭裁磽?dān)心？這多少是我們學(xué)校的錯(cuò)。你們趨之若鶩地選修“積極心理學(xué)”——心理學(xué)1504——和“幸福的科學(xué)”，想找到秘訣。要是你在醒著的時(shí)間里超過一半都在做你不喜歡的事情，你是很難感到幸福的。我迫不及待地想知道你們會(huì)變成什么樣子。第四篇：哈佛大學(xué)校長Drew Faust 2012畢業(yè)典禮演講哈佛大學(xué)校長Drew Faust 2012畢業(yè)典禮演講With Commencement today, we close our year of memorating Harvard’s 375th an exuberant party for 18,000 in torrential rain and ankledeep mud here in Tercentenary Theatre last fall to today’s invocation of John Harvard’s spirit still walking the Yard, we have celebrated this special year and this institution’s singular and distinguished by an act of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636, Harvard was the first college in the English colonies and is the oldest in what has bee the United was already 140 years old when the nation was are few institutions in this country or even the world that can claim such what does such a claim mean? At a time when the buzzword of “innovation” is everywhere, when the allure of the new drives business, politics and society, what do we intend by our celebration of endurance and of history? Why do we see history as an essential part of our identity? Why is Harvard’s past an invaluable resource as we decide how to shape the future?In a quite literal sense, history creates our identity – who we as Harvard actually are – and as a result who we aspire to live in a munity made up not just of the students, faculty and staff now here – or even the 300,000 Harvard alumni around the are part of a munity that extends across time as well as acknowledge an indelible connection to those who have e before – predecessors both recent and remote, who remind us of what is possible for us by their demonstration of what was possible for ’s history instills both expectations and responsibilities as it challenges us to inhabit this cannot study philosophy here without sighting the ghosts of John Rawls, Willard Quine, Benjamin Peirce, Ralph Waldo Emerson, or William cannot study law without thinking of the 18 Harvard Law School alumni who have served as Supreme Court justices, including the 6 currently on the bench – not to mention the graduate in the White House and the seven presidents with Harvard degrees who have preceded who appear on Harvard stages surely imagine themselves as Jack Lemmon or Natalie Portman or Stockard Channing, directed by the equivalents of Peter Sellars, Diane Paulus, or Mira perhaps our aspiring actors see themselves in John Lithgow and Tommy Lee Jones, who returned together for Arts First weekend earlier this month to reminisce about their thespian adventures in those seeking to change the world through technology are sure to reflect on Zuckerberg, Ballmer, and these domains and so many others, we have the privilege of living alongside a remarkable heritage of have certainly not e to work and study here in Cambridge and Boston because of the weather – though this past winter suggests climate change may be altering are drawn here because others before us have set a standard that extends across centuries in its power and its think of ourselves in their pany。在文中，特指哈佛法學(xué)院的教授會(huì)在課上隨機(jī)點(diǎn)名讓學(xué)生回答問題。它們賦予你開展行動(dòng)、發(fā)現(xiàn)事物意義和作出選擇的能力。不要因?yàn)橛X得肯定沒有停車位了，就把車停在距離目的地20個(gè)街區(qū)遠(yuǎn)的地方。金融業(yè)、華爾街和“招聘”已經(jīng)變成了這個(gè)兩難困境的標(biāo)志，代表著一系列問題，其意義要遠(yuǎn)比選擇一條職業(yè)道路寬廣和深刻。如果戈?duì)柖『涂ù慕淌诘慕Y(jié)論是正確的；如果金融行業(yè)的確就是“理性的選擇”，那么你們?yōu)槭裁催€是不停地問我這個(gè)問題呢？為什么這個(gè)看似理性的選擇，會(huì)讓你們?cè)S多人覺得難以理解、不盡合理，甚至在某種意義上是出于被迫或必須，而非自愿呢？為什么這個(gè)問題會(huì)困擾你們這么多人呢？我認(rèn)為，你們問我的其實(shí)是生活的意義，只不過你們提出的問題是經(jīng)過偽裝的——提問角度是高級(jí)職業(yè)選擇中可觀察、可度量的現(xiàn)象，而不是抽象的、難