【正文】 ken in wealth or in matters most are the standards you live by, the consideration you show others, and the way you use the gifts you are you leave Yale behind, carrying the written proof of your success here, at a college older than I left here, I didn39。ve e to feel about the Yale experience, studied hard, I played hard, and I made a lot of lifelong stays with you from college is the part of your education you hardly ever notice at the 39。m not sure I remembered to thank them the last time I was here, but now that I have a second chance, I thank the professors of Yale 39。t have the foggiest recollection of him.” [Laughter] But I remember Professor I still recall his dedication and high standards of my time there were many great professors at Yale, and there still 39。m speaking in the perfect forms and rhythms of ancient did take English here, and I took a class called “The History and Practice of American Oratory,” taught by Rollin President Levin, I want to give credit where credit is want the entire world to know this: Everything I know about the spoken word, I learned right here at Yale.[Laughter] As a student, I tried to keep a low year the New York Times interviewed John Morton Blum because the record showed I had taken one of his his mind39。t make verbal gaffes。t snore.[Laughter] Our course selections were different, as we followed our own path to academic was an English major and loved the loved history and pursued a diversified course of like to think of it as the academic road less traveled.[Laughter] For example, I took a class that studied Japanese , for the uninitiated, is a 15thcentury form of poetry, each poem having 17 is fully understood only by the Zen I recall, one of my academic advisers was worried about my selection of such a specialized said I should focus on English.[Laughter] I still hear that quite often.[Laughter] But my critics don39。t remember everything you did here.[Laughter] That can be a good thing.[Laughter] But there will be some people and some moments you will never , for example, my old classmate Dick Brodhead, the acplished dean of this great remember him as a young scholar, a bright lad—[laughter]— a hard both put a lot of time in at the Sterling Library, in the reading room where they have those big leather couches.[Laughter] We had a mutual wouldn39。m sure that each of you will make your own journey back at least a few times in your you39。you have to be President。ve carved out a single people think that to speak at Yale39。s a great day for your wallet.[Laughter] Most important, congratulations to the class of those of you who received honors, awards, and distinctions, I say, well to the C students I say, you, too, can be President of the United States.[Laughter] A Yale degree is worth a lot, as I often remind Dick Cheney—[laughter]—who studied here but left a little now we know: If you graduate from Yale, you bee President。s a great day for you。m particularly pleased to be here with my friend the former President of ? or Presidente, usted es un verdadero lider y un gran congratulate all the parents who are 39。ve earned this congratulate my fellow 39。I39。fellow Yale parents, families, and 39。第一篇：布什在耶魯大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上演講Commencement Address at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut May 21, 2001 by George W BushPresident Levin, thank you very Brodhead。fellows of the Yale Corporation。s a special privilege to receive this honorary was proud 33 years ago to receive my first Yale degree。m even prouder that, in your eyes, I39。m pleased to share this honor with such a distinguished 39。s a glorious day when your child graduates from 39。it39。if you drop out, you get to be Vice President.[Laughter] I appreciate so very much the chance to say a few words on this know Yale has a tradition of having no mencement also know that you39。s mencement, you have to be over the years, the specifications have bee far more you have to be a Yale graduate。and you have had to have lost the Yale vote to Ralph is my first time back here in quite a 39。re like me, you won39。t read aloud, and I wouldn39。t realize, I don39。I39。s eye over the parade of young faces down through the years, Professor Blum said, and I quote, “I don39。re the ones who keep Yale going after the mencements, after we have all gone our separate 39。s how I39。s the expectations and examples around you, the ideals you believe in, and the friends you my time, they spoke of the “Yale man.” I was really never sure what that was, but I do think that I39。t have much in the way of a life knew some people who thought they did, but it turned out that we were all in for ups and downs, most of them takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the begin to understand that life is ours to live but not to waste and that the greatest rewards are found in the mitments we make with our whole hearts—to the people we love and to the causes that earn our hope that each of you will know these hope you will find them in your own way and your own some, that might mean some time in public if you hear that calling, I hope you of you has unique gifts, and you were given them for a them and share service is one way, an honorable way, to mark your life with I visit not only my alma mater but the city of my life began just a few blocks from here, but I was raised in west there, Yale always seemed a world away, maybe a part of my it39。t wait as , and God bless.第二篇：布什在耶魯大學(xué)的演講布什在耶魯大學(xué)的演講(中英字體[大 中 小] 顏色[藍 綠 黑]文)分類：其它創(chuàng)建于：20081125 被查看：3166次[收藏：日記|作者] [評論] 布什在耶魯大學(xué)的演講(中英文)Remarks by the President in Commencement Address Yale UniversityNew Haven, Connecticut Listen to the President39。s a special privilege to receive this honorary was proud 33 years ago to receive my first Yale 39。ve earned this congratulate my fellow 39。m particularly pleased to be here with my friend, the former of Presidente, usted es un verdadero lider, y un gran amigo.(