1、此资料由网络收集而来，如有侵权请告知上传者立即删除。资料共分享，我们负责传递知识。哈佛大学校长福斯特在2023年毕业典礼英语演讲稿It is always a pleasure to greeta sea of alumni on Commencement afternoon;even thoughmy role is that of thewarm-up act for the feature to come. Today I am especially aware of thetreatwe have in store as I look out on not a sea, but a v
2、eritable ocean ofanticipation.But it is my customary assignmentand privilege to offer each spring a report to thealumni on the year that isending. And this was a year that for a number of reasons demandsspecial note.;The world is too much with us;the lines of Wordsworth’s well-known poem echoe
3、d in mymind as I thoughtabout my remarks today, for the world has intruded on us this year in wayswenever would have imagined. The University had not officially closed for a daysince 1978. Thisyear it closed three times. Twice it was for cases of extremeweather;first for superstorm Sandyand then for
4、 Nemo, the record-breakingFebruary blizzard. The third was of course the day ofBoston’s lockdown in theaftermath of the tragic Marathon bombings. This was a year thatchallengedfundamental assumptions about life’s security, stability and predictability.Yet as I reflected on theseintrusion
5、s from a world so very much with us, I was struck by howwe at Harvardare so actively engaged in shaping that world and indeed in addressing somanyof the most important and trying questions that these recent events have posed.Just two weeks ago, climatescientists and disaster relief workers gathered
6、here for a two-day conferenceco-sponsored by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the HarvardUniversityCenter for the Environment. They came to explore the very issues presentedbySandy and Nemo and to consider how academic researchers and workers on theground cancollaborate more effectively.This
7、gathering represents justone example of the wide range of activities across theUniversity dedicated toaddressing the challenges of climate change. How can we advance thesciencethat helps us understand climate change;and perhaps avert it How can wedevisesolutions;from new technologies to principles o
8、f urban design;that mightmitigate itHow can we envision the public policies to manage and respond toit Harvard is deeplyengaged with the broad issues of energy andenvironment;offering more than 250 courses inthis area, gathering 225 facultythrough our environment center and its programs, enrolling10
9、0 doctoralstudents from 7 Schools and many different disciplines in a graduateconsortiumdesigned to broaden their understanding of environmental issues. Our facultyarestudying atmospheric composition and working to develop renewable energysources; theyare seeking to manage rising oceans and to reima
10、gine cities foran era of increasinglythreatening weather; they are helping to fashionenvironmental regulations and internationalclimate agreements.So the weather isn’t somethingthat simply happens at Harvard, even though it may haveseemed that way when wehad to close twice this year. It is a f
11、ocus of study and of research, aswework to confront the implications of climate change and help shape nationalandinternational responses to its extremes.When Boston experienced thetragedy of the Marathon bombings last month, the city andsurroundingmunicipalities went into lockdown on April 19 to hel
12、p ensure the capture oftheescaped suspect, and Harvard responded in extraordinary ways. Within ourowncommunity, students, faculty and staff went well beyond their ordinaryresponsibilities tosupport one another and keep the University operatingsmoothly and safely underunprecedented circumstances. But
13、 we also witnessedour colleagues’ magnificent efforts tomeet the needs of Boston and our other neighborsin the crisis. The Harvard Police worked withother law enforcement agencies,and several of our officers played a critical role in saving thelife of thetransit officer wounded in Watertown. D
14、octors, nurses and other staff, manyfrom ouraffiliated hospitals, performed a near-miracle in ensuring that everyinjured person who arrivedat a hospital survived. Years of disaster planningand emergency readiness enabled theseinstitutions to act in a stunninglycoordinated and effective manner. I am
15、deeply proud of thecontributions madeby members of the Harvard community in the immediate aftermath of thebombings.But our broader and ongoingresponsibility as a university is to ask and address the largerquestions anysuch tragedy poses: to prepare for the next crisis and the one after that, evenasw
16、e work to prevent them; to help us all understand the origins and themeaning of suchterrible events in human lives and societies. We do this workin the teaching and research towhich we devote ourselves every day.Investigators at the Harvardhospitals are exploring improved techniques for managinginjury. Researchers atBrigham and Women’s, for instance, are pursuing the prospect of legtransplantsfor amputees. A faculty member in our School of Engineering an
