第一篇：哈弗大学校长2015毕业典礼演讲词
哈弗大学校长2015毕业典礼演讲词
Thank you, President Torres.Welcome, Governor Patrick.Thank you, everyone, for being here.The 146th annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association at the 364th Commencement of Harvard University.It’s a particular pleasure to welcome former Governor Deval Patrick of the College Class of 1978 and the Harvard Law School Class of 1982.Throughout his distinguished career in government, he forcefully argued for the power of education to transform lives.Nothing made that case more persuasively than his own remarkable life – from Chicago’s South Side to the Massachusetts State House.When he was sworn in as governor, he took the oath of office with the Mendi Bible,presented in 1841 by the African captives who had seized the slave ship Amistad to the man who had won their legal right to freedom, John Quincy Adams.Governor Patrick can claim connection with both the African heritage of the Amistad rebels and the institutional roots of their defender.Adams, as you heard before from President Torres, was a member of the Harvard College Class of 1787, and was both the first president of this alumni association, and himself the son of an earlier alumnus, John Adams, of the Class of 1755.That kind of continuity across the centuries is not the least of the reasons that we congregate here every spring to renew and reinforce our ties to this extraordinary place.Let me start by noticing what is both obvious and curious: We are here today together.We are here in association.It is an association of many people, and many generations.We celebrate a connection across time in these festival rites, singing our alma mater, adorning ourselves in medieval robes to mark the deep-rooted traditions of Harvard, and of universities more generally.Even in the age of the online and the virtual, an institution has brought us together, and brings us back.We have also sung – or rather the magnificent Renée Fleming has sung – “America the Beautiful,” to honor another institution, our democratic republic, which the men and women whose names are carved in stone in Memorial Church right behind me – and Memorial Hall just behind that – gave their lives to protect and uphold.When the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony arrived on these shores in 1630, they came as dissenters – rejecting institutions of their English homeland.But I have always found it striking that here in the wilderness, where mere survival was the foremost challenge, they so rapidly felt compelled to found this seat of learning so that New England, in the words of William Hubbard of the Class of 1642, so the New England “might be supplied with persons fit to manage the affairs of both church and state.” Church, state, and College.Three institutions they deemed essential to this Massachusetts experiment.Three institutions to ensure that the colonists, as Governor John Winthrop urged, could be “knit together as one” in a new society in a brave new world.Dozens of generations have come and gone since then, and the University’s footprint has expanded considerably beyond a small cluster of wooden buildings.But we have never lost faith in the capacity of each generation to build a better society than the one it was born into.We have never lost faith in the capacity of this College to help make that possible.As an early founder, Thomas Shepard put it, we hope to graduate into the world people who are, in his words, “enlarged toward the country and the good of it.”
Yet now, nearly four centuries later, we find ourselves in a challenging historical moment.How do we “enlarge” our graduates in a way that benefits others as well? Shepard spoke of enlarging “toward” – toward, as he put it, “the country and the good of it.” Are we succeeding in educating students oriented toward the betterment of others? Or have we all become so caught up in individual and personal achievements, opportunities, and appearances that we risk forgetting our interdependence, our responsibilities to one another and to the institutions meant to promote the common good?
This is the era of the selfie – and the selfie stick.Now don’t get me wrong: There is much to love about selfies, and two years ago in my Baccalaureate address I concluded by urging the graduates to send such pictures along so we could keep up with them and their post-Harvard lives.But think for a moment about the implications of a society that goes through life taking its own picture.That seems to me a quite literal embodiment of “self-regarding” – a term not often used as a compliment.In fact, Merriam-Webster’s dictionary offers “egocentric,” “narcissistic,” and “selfish” as synonyms.We direct endless attention to ourselves, our image, our “Likes,” just as we are encouraged – and in fact encourage our students – to burnish resumes and fill first college and then job or graduate school applications with endless lists of achievements – with examples, to borrow Shepard’s language, of constant enlargements of self.As one socialcommentator has observed, we are ceaselessly at work building our own brands.We spend time looking at screens instead of one another.Large portions of our lives are hardly experienced: They are curated, shared, Snapchatted and Instagrammed – rendered as a kind of composite selfie.Now, a certain amount of self-absorption is in our nature.As Harvard’s own E.O.Wilson has recently written, and I quote him, “We are an insatiably curious species – provided the subjects are our personal selves and people we would know or would like to know.” But I want to underscore two troubling aspects of this obsession with ourselves.The first is it undermines our sense of responsibility to others – the ethos of service at the heart of Thomas Shepard’s phrase describing Harvard’s enduring commitment to graduate students who are “enlarged” to be about more than themselves.Not just enlarged for their own sake and betterment – but enlarged toward others and toward the world.This is part of the essence of what this university has always strived to be.Our students and faculty have embodied that spirit through their work to serve in ourneighborhood and around the world.From tutoring at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston to working in Liberia to mitigate the Ebola crisis, they make a difference in the lives of countless individuals.The Dexter Gate across the Yard invites students to “Enter to grow in wisdom.Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind.” Today, some 6,500 graduates go forth.May each of them remember that it is in some way to serve.There is yet another danger we should note as well.Self-absorption may obscure not only our responsibilities to others but our dependence upon them.And this is troubling for Harvard, for higher education and for fundamental social institutions whose purposes and necessity we forget at our peril.Why do we even need college, critics demand? Can’t we do it all on our own? Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, has urged students to drop out and has even subsidized them – including several of our undergraduates – to leave college and pursue their individual entrepreneurial dreams.After all, the logic goes, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates dropped out and they seem to have done OK.Well, yes.But we should remember: Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg had Harvard to drop out of.Harvard to serve as the place where their world-changing discoveries were born.Harvard and institutions like it to train the physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, business analysts, lawyers, and thousands of other skilled individuals upon whom Facebook and Microsoft depend.Harvard to enlighten public servants to lead a country in which Facebook, Microsoft, and companies like them can thrive.Harvard to nurture the writers and filmmakers and journalists who create the storied “content” that gives the Internet its substance.And we must recognize as well that universities have served as sources of discoveries essential to the work of the companies advancing the revolutions in technology that have changed our lives – from early successes in creating and programming computers to development of prototypes that laid the groundwork for the now-ubiquitous touchscreen.We are told, too, that universities are about to be unbundled, disrupted by innovations that enable individuals to teach themselves, selecting from a buffet of massive open online courses and building do-it-yourself degrees.But online opportunities and residential learning are not at odds;the former can strengthen – but does not supplant – the latter.And through initiatives like edX and HarvardX, we are sharing intellectual riches that are the creations of institutions of higher learning, sharing them with millions of people around the globe.Intriguingly, we have found that a highly-represented group among these online learners around the world is teachers – who will use this knowledge to enrich their own schools and face-to-face classrooms.Assertions about the irrelevance of universities are part of a broader and growing mistrust of institutions more generally, one fuelled by our intoxication with the power and charisma of the individual and the cult of celebrity.Government, business, non-profits are joined with universities as targets of suspicion and criticism.There are few countervailing voices to remind us how institutions serve and support us.We tend to take what they do for granted.Your food was safe;your blood test was reliable;your polling place was open;electricity was available when you flipped the switch.Your flight to Boston took off and landed according to rules and systems and organizations responsible for safe air travel.Just imagine a week or a month without this “civic infrastructure” – without the institutions that undergird our society and without the commitment to our interdependence that created these structures of commonality in the first place.Think of the countries in West Africa that lacked the public health systems to contain Ebola and the devastation that resulted.Contrast that with the network of institutions that so rapidly saved lives and contained spread of the disease when it appeared in the United States.Think about other elements of our civicinfrastructure – the libraries, the museums, the school committees, the religious organizations that are as vital to moving us forward as are our roads and railways and bridges.Institutions embody our present and enduring connections to one other.They bring our disparate talents and capacities to the pursuit of common purpose.At the same time, they link us to both what has come before and what will follow.They are repositories of values – values that precede, transcend, and outlast the self.They challenge us to look beyond the immediate, the instantly gratifying, to think about the bigger picture, the longer run, the larger whole.They remind us that the world is only temporarily ours, that we are stewards entrusted with the past and responsible to the future.We are larger than ourselves and our selfies.That responsibility is quintessentially the work of universities – calling upon our shared human heritage to invent a new future – the future that will be created by the thousands of graduates who leave here today.Our work is about that ongoing commitment – not to a single individual or even one generation or one era – but to a larger world and to the service of the age that is waiting before it.In 1884, my predecessor Charles William Eliot unveiled a statue of John Harvard and spoke of the good that can come from the study of what we might call the “enlarged” life of the man whose name this university bears.Eliot said: “He will teach that the good which men do lives after them, fructified and multiplied beyond all power of measurement or computation.He will teach that from the seed which he planted … have sprung joy, strength, and energy ever fresh, blooming year after year in this garden of learning, and flourishing … as time goes on, in all fields of human activity.”
In other words, that statue we paraded past this afternoon is not simply a monument to an individual, but to a community and an institution constantly renewing itself.Your presence here today represents an act of connection and of affirmation of thatcommunity and of this institution.It is a recognition of Harvard’s capacity to propel you toward lives and worlds beyond your own.I thank you for the commitment that brought you here today and for all it means and sustains.I wish you joy, strength, and energy ever fresh.Thank you very much.
第二篇：哈弗感言
哈佛图书馆墙壁训言：
1、此刻打盹，你将做梦；此刻学习，你将圆梦。（This moment will nap, you will have a dream;But this moment study,you will interpret a dream.）
2、我荒废的今日，正是昨日殒身之人祈求的明日。（I leave uncultivated today, was precisely yesterday perishes tomorrow which person of the body implored.）
3、觉得为时已晚的时候，恰恰是最早的时候。（Thought is already is late, exactly is the earliest time.）
4、勿将今日之事拖到明日。（Not matter of the today will drag tomorrow.）
5、学习时的苦痛是暂时的，未学到的痛苦是终生的。（Time the study pain is temporary, has not learned the pain islife-long.）
6、学习不是缺乏时间，而是缺乏努力。（Studies this matter, lacks the time, but is lacks diligently.）
7、幸福或许不排名次，但成功必排名次。（Perhaps happiness does not arrange the position, but succeeds must arrange the position.）
8、学习并不是人生的全部。但既然连人生的一部分也无法征服，还能做什么呢？（The study certainly is not the life complete.But, since continually life part of-studies also is unable to conquer, what butalso can make?）
9、请享受无法回避的痛苦。（Please enjoy the pain which is unable to avoid.）
10、只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。（only has compared to the others early, diligently diligently, canfeel the successful taste.）
11、谁也不能随随便便成功，它来自彻底的自我管理和毅力。（Nobody can casually succeed, it comes from the thoroughself-control and the will.）
12、今天不走，明天要跑。（Today does not walk, will have to run tomorrow.）
13、投资未来的人是忠于现实的人。（The investment future person will be, will be loyal to the realityperson.）
14、教育程度代表财富。（The education level represents the income.）
15、一天过完，不会再来。（one day, has not been able again to come.）
16、即使现在，对手也不停地翻动书页。（Even if the present, the match does not stop changes the page.）
17、没有艰辛，便无所得。(Has not been difficult, then does not have attains.）
感言：只有有理想有追求且不懈努力的人才能成为这个世界的强者。人与人的差距，最小的是智商，最大的是坚毅！
第三篇：哈弗大学
OXFORD UNIVERSITY
Oxford University once famously claimed to have been founded by Alfred the Great in the 9th Century, but in fact, the University as we know it today began to take shape in the 12th Century when English Scholars were exiled from Paris University and began to congregate at Oxford’s Abbeys and Priories, which were buy then already established centers of learning.Today, 39 independent, self-governing colleges are related to the University in a type of federal system.Each is governed by a Head of House and a number of Fellows, who are academics specializing in a wide variety of disciplines, most of whom also hold University posts.Across both the Arts and the Sciences, Oxford research consistently ranks top both nationally and internationally.As well as being in the forefront of scientific, medical and technological achievement, the University has strong links with research institutions and industrial concerns both in the United Kingdom and overseas.The University is income from externally funded research grants and contracts in 1996-7 totaled over ￡107 million.The University’s great age also allows its teaching staff and research students to draw on a heritage of magnificent library and museum collections.Students working for higher degrees are an important and valued part of Oxford University.They currently make up over a quarter of the total student body of 15,641, drawn by the excellent facilities for research, which the University can offer;therefore the proportion of graduate students is increasing.In all these fields, Oxford attracts scholars from many parts of the world to join its teaching and research staff, and also values important role of overseas graduate students(approximately one third of the total graduate body)in providing intellectual stimulation and creating and maintaining academic links with colleges abroad.To gain entry into the University, students must first win a place by competitive examination at one of the colleges, which have their own admissions policies.The procedure for applications varies according to the subject you propose to study.There are no final deadlines for most applications, unless specified in a particular subject section, but there are many more applications than places available, and the process of acceptance by both faculty board and college can take some time;early application is therefore strongly advised.
第四篇：哈弗演讲
以下是Drew G.Faust 在2008年本科毕业生毕业典礼上的演讲讲稿。她是哈佛历史上第一位女性校长，第一位非哈佛毕业生校长，杰出的历史学家，2001年从宾西法尼业大学到哈佛的Radcliffe学院任教。
这段演讲无数次在我迷茫，彷徨的时候给予我指引与帮助，今天，我将铭记于心的这段文字一字一句的敲下来，希望她对你同样有用。
As I have listened to you talk about the choices ahead of you, I have heard you articulate your worries about the relationship of success and happiness — perhaps, more accurately, how to define success so that it yields and encompasses real happiness, not just money and prestige.The most remunerative choice, you fear, may not be the most meaningful and the most satisfying.But you wonder how you would ever survive as an artist or an actor or a public servant or a high school teacher? How would you ever figure out a path by which to make your way in journalism? Would you ever find a job as an English professor after you finished who knows how many years of graduate school and dissertation writing?
在聊天时我听过你们谈到你们目前所面临的选择，我听到你们一字一句地说出你们对于成功与幸福的关系的忧虑——也许，更精确地讲，怎样去定义成功才能使它具有或包含真正的幸福，而不仅仅是金钱和荣誉。你们害怕，报酬最丰厚的选择，也许不是最有价值的和最令人满意的选择。但是你们也担心，如果作为一个艺术家或是一个演员，一个人民公仆或是一个中学老师，该如何才能生存下去？然而，你们可曾想过，如果你的梦想是新闻业，怎样才能想出一条通往梦想的道路呢？难道你会在读了不知多少年研，写了不知多少毕业论文终于毕业后，找一个英语教授的工作？
The answer is: you won’t know till you try.But if you don’t try to do what you love — whether it is painting or biology or finance;if you don’t pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it.Life is long.There is always time for Plan B.But don’t begin with it.答案是：你不试试就永远都不会知道。但如果你不试着去做自己热爱的事情，不管是玩泥巴还是生物还是金融，如果连你自己都不去追求你认为最有价值的事，你终将后悔。人生路漫漫，你总有时间去给自己留“后路”，但可别一开始就走“后路”。
I think of this as my parking space theory of career choice, and I have been sharing it with students for decades.Don’t park 20 blocks from your destination because you think you’ll never find a space.Go where you want to be and then circle back to where you have to be.我把这叫做我的关于职业选择的“泊车”理论，几十年来我一直都在向学生们“兜售”我的这个理论。不要因为怕到了目的地找不到停车位而把车停在距离目的地20个路口的地方。直接到达你想去的地方，哪怕再绕回来停，你暂时停的地方只是你被迫停的地方。
第五篇：哈弗大学
美国哈佛大学简介（图）
摘要：哈佛大学（Harvard University）成立于1636年，是美国历史最悠久的高等学府。哈佛大学位于美国马萨诸塞州剑桥城。哈佛大学是一所私立大学，是知名的“常春藤盟校”的八大成员之一。
不知道有多少憧憬美国名校的申请人都有着自己的“哈佛梦”，梦想着自己有一天能够穿上代表哈佛的深红色衣服，徜徉在剑桥城的哈佛校园内，手捧书本坐在草坪上。哈佛大学意味着顶级学术环境，意味着世界一流的教育，意味着高起点和美好的前程。
哈佛大学（Harvard University）成立于1636年，是美国历史最悠久的高等学府。哈佛大学位于美国马萨诸塞州剑桥城。哈佛大学是一所私立大学，是知名的“常春藤盟校”的八大成员之一。在美国知名大学排名网站USnews 上，哈佛大学连续多年排名第一位。而在世界各报刊和研究机构排行中，哈佛大学常年雄踞榜首。
作为如此名校，哈佛大学对于申请人的筛选也相当严格。Princeton Review把哈佛大学评为美国最难申请的大学第四位。
哈佛大学的校训是真理（Veritas），这个校训也出现在哈佛大学的校徽上。
哈佛大学校徽
哈佛大学历史上出现过数不尽的名人和诺贝尔奖得主。哈佛的毕业生中出现了8任美国总统。我们所熟知的美国现任总统奥巴马、前任总统罗斯福、肯尼迪和乔治·布什都是哈佛大学校友。也有不少中国知名人士毕业于哈佛，包括地质学家竺可桢，散文家梁实秋，梁启超之子建筑学家梁思成等等。当前的台湾国民党主席马英九获得了哈佛大学法学博士学位。最近炙手可热的NBA中国明星控球后卫林书豪也出身哈佛。哈佛的教授中，有34名诺贝尔奖得主。而哈佛历史上一共有40位诺贝尔奖得主和30位普利策奖得主。
哈佛大学学生以研究生为主，约有12000多名研究生，近7000名本科生和2400多名教授。在全美排名上，哈佛大学商学院、医学院排名首位，人文、政治和英文专业排名第一。文学院、法学院、医学院、商学院以及工程学院是全美公认的Number One。哈佛大学共设10个研究生院，包括文理学院、商业管理学院、设计学院、牙科医学学院、神学院、教育学院、法学院、医学院、公共卫生学院和肯尼迪政治学院；2个招收大学本科生的学院，即哈佛学院和拉德克利夫学院；并设继续教育办公室，专门负责暑期学校、附设课程和终身学习中心。
Harvard University 校园风景
哈佛大学与麻省理工学院（MIT）的关系非常微妙，是一种既有竞争又合作的关系。早年间，两校的合并方案也被激烈讨论过。哈佛与麻省在排名和研究上的竞争非常激烈。由于同处剑桥市，为了充分利用资源，两校的学生可以选择另一所学校的课程来完成学分要求。在科研方面，两校同样进行了广泛的合作，包括哈佛MIT数据中心等。
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