【正文】 s to see problems, see approaches, and measure the impact of their efforts to address the hunger, poverty, and desperation George Marshallspoke of 60 years of the Harvard Family: Here in the Yard is one of the great collections of intellectual talent in the for?There is no question that the faculty, the alumni, the students, and the benefactors of Harvard have used their power to improve the lives of people here and around the can we do more? Can Harvard dedicate its intellect to improving the lives of people who will never even hear its name? Let me make a request of the deans and the professors – the intellectual leaders here at Harvard: As you hire new faculty, award tenure, review curriculum, and determine degree requirements, please ask yourselves:Should our best minds be dedicated to solving our biggest problems?Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world’s worst inequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty … the prevalence of world hunger … the scarcity of clean water…the girls kept out of school … the children who die from diseases we can cure?Should the world’s most privileged people learn about the lives of theworld’s least privileged? These are not rhetorical questions – you will answer with your mother, who was filled with pride the day I was admitted here –never stopped pressing me to do more for few days before my wedding, she hosted a bridal event, at which she read aloud a letter about marriage that she had written to mother was very ill with cancer at the time, but she saw one more opportunity to deliver her message, and at the close of the letter she said: ―From those to whom much is given, much is expected.‖ When you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given –in talent, privilege, and opportunity – there is almost no limit to what the world hasa right to expect from line with the promise of this age, I want to exhort each of the graduates here to take on an issue – a plex problem, a deep inequity, and bee a specialist on you make it the focus of your career, that would be you don’t have to do that to make an a few hours every week, you can use the growing power of the Internet to get informed, find others with the same interests, see the barriers, and find ways to cutthrough ’t let plexity stop on the big will be one of the great experiences of your graduates are ing of age in an amazing you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never have awareness of global inequity, which we did not with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with very little have more than we had。第二篇：比爾蓋茨哈佛演講 全文比爾蓋茨哈佛演講 全文Remarks of Bill Gates Harvard Commencement June 7, 2007President Bok, former President Rudenstine, ining President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: ―Dad, I always told youI’d e back and get my degree.‖ I want to thank Harvard for this timely ’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your my part, I’m just happy that the Crimson has called me ―Harvard’s most successful dropout.‖ I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class … I did the best of everyone who I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business ’m a bad ’s why I was invited to speak at your I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might behere was just a phenomenal experience for life was used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn’t even signed up dorm life was lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didn’t worry about getting up in the ’s how I came to be the leader of the antisocial clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social was a great place to were more women up there, and most of the guys were sciencemath bination offered me the best odds, if you know what I is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn’t guarantee of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call from Currier House to a pany in Albuquerque that had begun making the world’s first personal offered to sell them worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on they said: ―We’re not quite ready, e see usin a month,‖ which was a good thing, because we hadn’t written the software that moment, I worked day and night on this little extra credit project that marked the end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journeywith I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always was an amazing privilege – and though I left early, I was transformed by my years at Harvard, the friendships Imade, and the ideas I worked taking a serious look back … I do have one big left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world – the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemnmillions of people to lives of learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in economics and got great exposure to the advances being made in the humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity –reducing inequity is the highest human left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakab