德鲁.吉尔平.福斯特 哈佛首位女校长在08届毕业典礼的演讲_德鲁·吉尔平·福斯特.docVIP

德鲁.吉尔平.福斯特 哈佛首位女校长在08届毕业典礼的演讲_德鲁·吉尔平·福斯特 Baccalaureate address to Class of 2008 2008届本科毕业典礼上的讲话 The Memorial Church 纪念教堂 Cambridge, Mass. 麻省剑桥市 June 3, 2008 2008年6月3日 凯瑟琳·德鲁·吉尔平·福斯特（Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust） As prepared for delivery 准备稿 In the curious custom of this venerable institution, I find myself standing before you expected to impart words of lasting wisdom. Here I am in a pulpit, dressed like a Puritan minister — an apparition that would have horrified many of my distinguished forebears and perhaps rededicated some of them to the extirpation of witches. This moment would have propelled Increase and Cotton into a true “Mather lather.” But here I am and there you are and it is the moment of and for Veritas. 在这所久负盛名的大学的别具一格的仪式上，我站在了你们的面前，被期待着给予一些蕴含着恒久智慧的言论。站在这个讲坛上，我穿得像个清教徒教长——一个可能会吓到我的杰出前辈们的怪物，或许使他们中的一些人重新致力于铲除巫婆的事业上。这个时刻也许曾激励了很多清教徒成为教长。但现在，我在上面，你们在下面，此时此刻，属于真理，为了真理。 You have been undergraduates for four years. I have been president for not quite one. You have known three presidents; I one senior class. Where then lies the voice of experience? Maybe you should be offering the wisdom. Perhaps our roles could be reversed and I could, in Harvard Law School style, do cold calls for the next hour or so. 你们已经在哈佛做了四年的大学生，而我当哈佛校长还不到一年。你们认识了三个校长，而我只认识了你们这一届大四的。算起来我哪有资格说什么经验之谈？或许应该由你们上来展示一下智慧。要不我们换换位臵？然后我就可以像哈佛法学院的学生那样，在接下来的一个小时内不时地冷不防地提出问题。 We all do seem to have made it to this point — more or less in one piece. Though I recently learned that we have not provided you with dinner since May 22. I know we need to wean you from Harvard in a figurative sense. I never knew we took it quite so literally. 学校和学生们似乎都在努力让时间来到这一时刻，而且还差不多是步调一致的。我这两天才得知哈佛从5月22日开始就不向你们提供伙食了。虽然有比喻说“我们早晚得给你们断奶”，但没想到我们的后勤还真的早早就把“奶”给断了。 But let?s return to that notion of cold calls for a moment. Let?s imagine this were a baccalaureate service in the form of Q A, and you were asking the questions. “What is the meaning of life, President Faust? What were these four years at Harvar