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Thank you, Katie卡地 – and thank you to President Faust, the Fellows of Harvard College哈佛大学研究员, the Board of Overers督学委员会成员, and all the faculty, alumni, and students who have welcomed me back to campus.
I’m excited to be here, not only to address the distinguished graduates and alumni at Harvard University’s 363rd commencement but to stand in the exact spot where Oprah stood last year. OMG.
Let me begin with the most important order of business: Let’s have a big round of applau for the Class of 2014! They’ve earned it!
北京中考时间2021年具体时间As excited as the graduates are, they are probably even more exhausted after the past few weeks. And parents: I’m not referring to their final exams. I’m talking about the Senior Olympics, the Last Chance Dance, and the Booze Crui 买酒一日游– I mean, the moonlight crui月光巡游.
laredo texas The entire year has been exciting on campus: Harvard beat Yale for the venth straight
time in football. The men’s basketball team went to the cond round of the NCAA tournament 美国大学生篮球联赛锦标赛for the cond straight year. And the Men’s Squash team won national championship.
Who’d a thunk it: Harvard, an athletic powerhou! Pretty soon they’ll be asking whether you have academics to go along with your athletic programs.
My personal connection to Harvard began in 1964, when I graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and matriculated here at the B-School.
wap歌词直白翻译 You’re probably asking: How did I ever get into Harvard Business School, given my stellar 一流的academic record, where I always made the top half of the class possible? I have no idea. And the only people more surprid than me were my professors.2012年浙江高考数学
Anyway, here I am again back in Cambridge坎布里奇. And I have noticed that a few things have changed since I was a student here. Elsie’s艾尔西的店 – a sandwich spot I ud to love near the Square – is now a burrito玉米煎饼 shop. The Wursthaus – which ha
d great beer and sausage – is now an artisanal gastro-pub情人眼里出西施英语手工艺主题酒吧, whatever the heck that is真糟糕. And the old Holyoke Center 霍利约克中心is now named the Smith Campus Center史密斯校园中心.
Don’t you just hate it when alumni put their names all over everything? I was thinking about that this morning as I walked into the Bloomberg Center布隆伯格中心 on the Harvard Business School campus across the river.
But the good news is, Harvard remains what it was when I first arrived on campus 50 years ago: America’s most prestigious university. And, like other great universities, it lies at the heart of the American experiment in democracy.
Their purpo is not only to advance knowledge, but to advance the ideals of our nation. Great universities are places where people of all backgrounds, holding all beliefs, pursuing all questions, can come to study and debate their ideas – freely and openly.
Today, I’d like to talk with you about how important it is for that freedom to exist for everyone, no matter how strongly we may disagree with another’s viewpoint.
Tolerance for other people’s ideas, and the freedom to express your own, are inparable values at great universities. Joined together, they form a sacred 神圣的trust that holds the basis of our democratic society.
业绩英文But that trust is perpetually 持久地classic是什么意思vulnerable to the tyrannical 专横的tendencies of monarchs君主, mobs美国副总统拜登暴徒, and majorities. And lately, we have en tho tendencies manifest themlves too often, both on college campus and in our society.
That’s the bad news – and unfortunately, I think both Harvard, and my own city of New York, have been witness to this trend.
First, for New York City. Several years ago, as you may remember, some people tried to stop the development of a mosque清真寺 a few blocks from the World Trade Center site.
It was an emotional issue, and polls showed that two-thirds of Americans were against a mosque being built there. Even the Anti-Defamation League反诽谤联盟 – widely regard
ed as the country’s most ardent 热心的、激烈的defender of religious freedom – declared its opposition to the project.
The opponents held rallies集会 and demonstrations. They denounced谴责 the developers. And they demanded that city government stop its construction. That was their right – and we protected their right to protest抗议. But they could not have been more wrong. And we refud to cave in认输 to their demands.relex是什么意思我们拒绝向他们的要求妥协
