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Voyage of Discovery Stanford Convocation address President John Hennessy Each fall as I prepare for Convocation and the arrival of a new class of Stanford students, I contemplate the message I want to deliver and look for inspiration, often among my recent reading.? This summer, I read the first volume of Janet Browne’s biography of Charles Darwin, entitled Voyaging. Most of you probably know the basics of Darwin’s story: his voyage on the Beagle1 at the age of 22, the role of his observations in the Galapagos2, and his eventual publication of On the Origin of Species3 more than 20