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, to challenge the present in order to prepare for what is to e. To shape thepresent in service of an uncertain and yet impatient future. We owe the future answers. We owe the future questions. We owe the future meaning. TheHarvard Campaign, launched last September, will help us fulfill these obligations, and pay ourdebt to the future, just as the gifts of previous generations anchor us here today. As todayamp。rsquo。s ceremonies so powerfully remind us, we also owe the future the men and women whoare prepared to ask questions and seek answers and search for meaning for decades to we send some 6,500 graduates into the world, to be teachers and lawyers, scientists andphysicians, poets and planners and public servants, and。as our speaker this morning remindedus。to be in their own ways revolutionaries. Ready to take on everything from water scarcity tovirtual currency to munity policing. We must continue to invest in financial aid to attractand support the talented students who can build our future, and also we must invest insupporting the teaching and learning that ensures the fullest development of their capacities ina rapidly changing world. If we fulfill our obligation, todayamp。rsquo。s graduates will have found the “。education of questions”。Cherone described, a place where, as she put it, “。ceilings are only made of sky.”。 But look aroundyou: we are there. This space is a “。theatre”。 without walls, without a roof, and without limits. Itis a place where extraordinary individuals have preceded us, a place that must encourage ourgraduates。of today and all the years past。to emulate those women and men, to look skywardand to soar. Thank you very much.