Requiring scholars and commencement speakers, for that matter 因此 要求学者和毕业典礼发言者 to conform to certain political standards 遵循特定政治标准 undermines the whole purpose of a university 会侵蚀整个大学的存在意义 This spring 今
And it is that union of values that the 正是这两大价值的结合 terrorists who attacked us on September 11th, 2001 让2001年9月11日及2013年4月15日 and on April 15th, 2013 found most threatening 袭击我们的恐怖分子感到恐惧 To them, we we
I'm sure all of today's graduates have read 我敢肯定 今天毕业的学生肯定都读过 John Stuart Mill's On Liberty 约翰.斯图尔特.密尔的《论自由》 But just let me read a short passage from it 请允许我将其中的一小段读给大家听 "The peculia
In the 2012 presidential race, according to Federal Election Commission data 96 percent of all campaign contributions from Ivy League faculty and employees 2年总统选举中 根据联邦选举委员会数据 常春藤盟校教职员工有96%的捐赠 went to
Thank you, Katie 感谢凯蒂 and thank you to President Faust, the Fellows of Harvard College, the Board of Overseers 感谢佛斯特校长 哈佛大学部成员 监事会 and all the faculty, alumni, and students who have welcomed me back t
He was attempting to repress and criminalize 他试图压制和定罪 those who sympathized with an economic system that was, even then, failing 那些赞同哪怕在当时都已经很失败的经济体制的人 McCarthy's Red Scare destroyed thousands of
Joined together 两者结合在一起 they form a sacred trust that holds the basis of our democratic society 构成了维持民主社会根基的神圣信赖 But let me tell you that trust is perpetually vulnerable 但我要告诉大家 这种信赖是很脆弱的 to the tyran
My personal connection to Harvard began back in 1964 我个人同哈佛的联系始于1964年 when I graduated from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore 我从约翰霍普金斯大学毕业 and matriculated here at the B-School 被录取到这里的商学院 You're probably
Let's get serious 让我们严肃一些 When 86 Americans are killed with guns every single day 每天都有86位美国人死于枪杀 and shootings regularly occur at our schools and universities 枪击事件也经常发生在校园中 including last week'
As a former chairman of Johns Hopkins 作为约翰霍普金斯大学前任主席 I strongly believe that a university's obligation 我坚信一所大学的职责 is not to teach students what to think but to teach students how to think 并不是教学生思考
Now, don't get me wrong: scientific skepticism is healthy 别误解我的意思 科学怀疑主义是有好处的 But there is a world of difference between scientific skepticism that seeks out more 但是寻找更多证据的科学怀疑主义同意识形态上 evidence an
