【正文】 never greater for those who understand the cell and the pixel。we must act in ways that are not just about tomorrow – but about decades and even centuries to means that we teach our students with the intention of shaping the whole of their lives as well as readying them for what happens as soon as they leave our means that in the sciences – and beyond – we support research that is driven by curiosity, by the sheer desire to understand – at the same time that we pursue discoveries that have immediate measurable it means that we support fields of study – of languages, literatures, cultures – that are intended to locate us within traditions of reflection about the larger purposes of human existence, enabling us to look beyond ourselves and our own experience, to ask where we are going – not just how we get in our professional Schools, designed to educate students for specific vocations, we seek to instill the perspective that derives from the critical eye and the questioning mind。第四篇：哈佛大學(xué)校長(zhǎng)Drew Faust 2012畢業(yè)典禮演講哈佛大學(xué)校長(zhǎng)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。（8）Simpsons：《辛普森一家》，美國(guó)電視史上播放時(shí)間最長(zhǎng)的動(dòng)畫片。（6）Crimson：指The Harvard Crimson，《克里姆森報(bào)》，哈佛大學(xué)學(xué)生主辦的校報(bào)。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(wèn)題。（4）cold call：營(yíng)銷人員打給陌生客戶推銷商品的電話。在本文中是假設(shè)，指如果在以前，Increase and Cotton父子會(huì)參加泡沫派對(duì)這一另人頗感神秘的活動(dòng)，去消滅女巫，即校長(zhǎng)本人。其子Cotton Mather。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。我迫不及待地想知道你們會(huì)變成什么樣子。記住我們對(duì)你們寄予的厚望，就算你們覺得它們不可能實(shí)現(xiàn)，也要記住，它們至關(guān)重要，是你們?nèi)松谋睒O星，會(huì)指引你們到達(dá)對(duì)自己和世界都有意義的彼岸。不要停歇。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。它使你學(xué)會(huì)自我分析和評(píng)判，讓你從容把握自己的生活，并掌控其發(fā)展路徑。關(guān)注你的生活，對(duì)其進(jìn)行反思，思考怎樣才能好好地生活，想想怎樣對(duì)社會(huì)有用：這些也許就是人文教育傳授給你們的最寶貴的東西。這是最好的消息。你們?cè)谶x擇道路，同時(shí)又質(zhì)疑自己的選擇。要是你在醒著的時(shí)間里超過(guò)一半都在做你不喜歡的事情，你是很難感到幸福的。她問(wèn)：“我為什么要做這行？我討厭坐飛機(jī)，我不喜歡住酒店，我不會(huì)喜歡這個(gè)工作的。你們可能喜歡投行、金融或咨詢，它可能就是你的最佳選擇。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。人生之路很長(zhǎng)，總有時(shí)間去實(shí)施備選方案，但不要一開始就退而求其次。但你們想知道自己到底應(yīng)該怎樣生存，不論是作為藝術(shù)家、演員、公務(wù)員還是高中老師？你們要怎樣找到一條通向新聞業(yè)的道路？在不知道多少年之后，完成了研究生學(xué)業(yè)和論文，你們會(huì)找到英語(yǔ)教授的工作嗎？答案是：只有試過(guò)了才知道。我聽過(guò)你們談?wù)撁媾R的種種選擇，所以我知道你們對(duì)成功和幸福的關(guān)系感到煩惱——或者更準(zhǔn)確地說(shuō)，如何定義成功，才能使之產(chǎn)生并包含真正的幸福，而不只是金錢和名望。調(diào)查表明，年長(zhǎng)的人——比如我這個(gè)歲數(shù)的人——幸福感比年輕人更強(qiáng)。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。我認(rèn)為，你們之所以擔(dān)心，還有另一個(gè)原因——和第一個(gè)原因有關(guān)，但又不完全相同。你們擔(dān)心，是因?yàn)槟銈兗认牖畹糜幸饬x，又想活得成功；你們清楚，你們所受的教育是讓你們不僅為自己，為自己的舒適和滿足，更要為你們身邊的世界創(chuàng)造價(jià)值。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(wèn)題，其意義要遠(yuǎn)比選擇一條職業(yè)道路寬廣和深刻。每一個(gè)決定都意味著有得有失——一扇門打開了，另一扇卻關(guān)上了。你們正處在一個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)變的時(shí)刻，需要做出抉擇。而現(xiàn)在，你們中有許多人不知道如何把以上這些成績(jī)與擇業(yè)結(jié)合起來(lái)。我們對(duì)你們寄予厚望，反而成了你們的負(fù)擔(dān)。你們?yōu)槭裁磽?dān)心？這多少是我們學(xué)校的錯(cuò)。但你們又不知道如何協(xié)調(diào)這兩個(gè)目標(biāo)。但是，暫時(shí)拋開我們哈佛人自以為是的圓滑、沉著和無(wú)懈