【正文】 instill the perspective that derives from the critical eye and the questioning mind。we charge our students to think about lasting value, not just quarterly mitments shape our institutional identity – our discussions and decisions about what a university is and must both higher education and the world have been transformed, Harvard has not just weathered the past 375 has changed and flourished – from its origins as a small, local college designed to produce educated ministers and citizens, to its emergence as a research university in the late 19th century, to its transformation into a national institution, and its development after World War II as an engine of scientific discovery and economic growth, as well as a force for significantly broadening social are now in another moment of dramatic shift in higher education: Globalization and technology are prominent among the forces that challenge us once again to examine how we do our work and how we define our year alone we have launched a new Universitywide initiative to think in fresh ways about our methods of learning and teaching, a new Universitywide Innovation Lab to help our students bring their ideas to life, and edX, a new partnership with MIT to embrace the promise of online learning for our students while sharing our knowledge more widely with the we reimagine ourselves for the 21st century, we recognize that history teaches us not just about continuity – what is important because it is also teaches us about has survived and thrived by considering over and over again how its timeless and unwavering dedication to knowledge and truth must be adapted to the demands of each new encourages us to see contingency and opportunity by offering us the ability to imagine a different of how Harvard changed as we came to recognize that our mitment to fulfilling human potential required us to open our gates more continuity of our deepest values led us to the transformation of our practices – and of the characteristics of the students, faculty and staff who inhabit and embody was once unimaginable came to seem necessary and even inevitable as we extended the circle of inclusion and belonging to wele minorities and women, and in recent years to so significantly enhance support for students of limited financial history provides “a pass to steer by” – to borrow a phrase from Massachusetts Bay Governor John fills us with confidence in our purposes and in our ability to surmount the risks of uncharted the strength of our past, we wele these unknowns and the opportunities they offer as we reimagine Harvard for its next 375 nearly four centuries now, Harvard has been inventing the is where the future : ://第五篇：哈佛大學(xué)校長(zhǎng)離職演講Good bye and good luck!by Lawrence , President of Harvard UniversityToday, I speak from this podium a final time as your I depart, I want to thank all of youwith whom I have been privileged to work over these past of us have had ourdisagreements, but I know that which unites us transcends that which divides leave with a full heart, grateful for the opportunity I have had to lead this remarkable I delivered my inaugural address, 56 months ago, I have learned an enormous amount—about higher education, about leadership, and also about things look different to me than they did five years world that today’s Harvard’s graduates are entering is a profoundly different one than the world administrators is a world where opportunities have never been greater for those who know how to teach children to read, or those who know how to distribute financial risk。never greater for those who understand the cell and the pixel。never greater for those who can master, and navigate between, legal codes, faith traditions, puter platforms, political is also a world where some are left further and further behindbut desperately in need of , when sound bites are getting shorter, when instant messages crowd out essays, and when individual lives grow more frenzied, college graduates capable of deep reflection are what our world all these reasons I believedin the unique and irreplaceable mission of are where the wisdom we cannot afford to lose is preserved from generation to all human institutions, universities can look beyond present norms to future possibilities, can look through current considerations to emergent among universities, Harvard stands its great tradition, its iconicreputation, its remarkable network of 300,000 alumni, Harvard has never had as much potential as it does yet, great and proud institutions, like great and proud nations at their peak, must surmount a very real risk: that the very strength of their traditions will lead to caution, to an inward focus on prerogative and to a placency that lets the world pass them so I say to you that our University today is at an inflection point in its such a moment, there is temptation to elevate fort and consensus over progress and clear direction, but this would be a University’s matchless resourcesdemand that we seize this moment with vision and do otherwise would be a lost can spur great deeds that history will mark decades and even centuries from Harvard can find the courage to change itself, it can change the world.