耶鲁校长：世界不会因“耶鲁毕业生”的身份而善待你

令人不快的东西在这内都都有一定程度的普遍存在。我们相当平庸，但我们期望认真得愈来愈好。

在期望已是一个充满关怀、理解和欢迎的社区的同时，我们没法保护你们免受一切不愉快的事情的影响。我们的工作是为你们就读后将聚居的世界性认真立即。而那个世界性但会因为你有一个乔治城学院的学位而竭尽所能你。如果我们把你们放在一个肤浅的泡沫当中，马上你们的精神状态免疫工业发展起来，我们就不是在帮你们。我们在这内都是为了让你们立即就绪应对一个将挑战你们，有时甚至但会冒犯你们的世界性。

我期望你们在乔治城学院可借借助这些专业知识，这样你们就能用一生来复建这个我们都想到远非平庸的世界性。

从我已经与你们当中的一些人展开的谈话当中，我想到你们就让彻底改变世界性。对你们来说是好事。这也是我们接纳你们的原因之一。

但是，如果你就让彻底改变世界性，你能够借助恳求人们彻底改变初衷的艺术。而且我前提，除非你首先有彻底改变自己的专业知识，否则你但会有效地认真到彻底改变他人。

乔治城学院的校训是“理”（Veritas）。 它某种程度是一句始终如一，它是我们普遍存在的原因——为了寻求真理。

随着时间的很短，真理被阐明出来，它能够在互相恶性竞争的思就让跨平台上接受考验。如果你一定会要寻求真理，你能够与那些与你初衷不尽相同的人碰触。

愈来愈重要的是，你能够主动彻底改变你的初衷——被愈来愈好的论据或原先信息所恳求。只有当你有了这种专业知识，你才但会有足以的能力来彻底改变世界性。这是我期望你们在乔治城学院借助的另一项专业知识。

在居所当天，阿黛尔和我认出了你们当中的许多普通家庭。我们惊动了不止一次的感性重聚。自从你们带入你们所亲爱的的人的世界性的那一天起，你们当中的大多数人就一直是他们日常生活的当中心。现在你们走去了，对你们很多人的家人来说，唯有沉默。有许多人设法你们过渡到学院——学术负责人、独自一人负责人、住宿负责人、监考人、院长。但是你的亲朋好友却仅仅靠他们自己。他们也正要经历一个巨大的变更，而这取决于你是否能设法他们筹钱。叮嘱不时地给他们打个电邮，不是短信——是电邮，不约而同他们认真得怎么样。我前提他们但会感激你的。

2026届的老师，我们对你们钟亲爱的。我期望乔治城学院是你们梦就让当中的一切——在智力上、不少人和个人层面。

我只期望在你们50周年聚但会时我能到场，这样你们就能询问我你们的日常生活是如何工业发展的，以及乔治城学院在其当中扮演的反派。

祝你们每个人都好运！

2022 Convocation Remarks

Good afternoon, Class of 2026. It is an honor to add my voice to the chorus welcoming you officially as members of the Harvard community.

Fifty-three years ago this week, I said goodbye to my friends and family in Pontiac, Michigan and arrived here in Cambridge, Massachusetts for my first year of college. Not here, exactly, but just down the street at MIT.

It seems like yesterday.

I can tell you with complete confidence that memories of your first few weeks on this campus will remain vivid throughout your lifetime. You will recall who you met, who you befriended, your very first class, your very first burger at Bartley’s—everything.

Among my most vivid memories is my freshman roommate. His name was Alan. He was a lacrosse player from New Jersey. He was big. I was small. He was messy. I was neat. He brought his stereo to campus and liked to study with it on. I liked to study with it off. He liked to listen to the Rolling Stones, The Who and The Band. I liked Bob Dylan, James Taylor and Joni Mitchell. He liked almost all New York sports teams. I hated them. He was politically quite conservative. I was anything but.

“This will never work out,” I thought. So—you can probably tell where this story is going—I could not he been more wrong. Alan, beneath a seemingly crusty, loud, opinionated exterior, proved to be one of the kindest, most interesting people I met during my time in college. He was incredibly well read, a terrific writer, and very generous with his time, patiently helping me nigate through freshman physics, calculus, and chemistry. While we differed on almost everything related to politics, he loved a good argument, and we had many. He became one of my closest friends, and we continued to live together, even as graduate students. On my first day at Harvard Law School, he fixed me up on a blind date with his girlfriend’s roommate. That blind date is here today. Let me introduce you to her, my wife of 47 years, Adele. And Alan wound up marrying Adele’s roommate, Debby, one week before Adele and I got married. The two of them came to our wedding on their honeymoon.

Today, 53 years after we met, Alan and Debby remain two of our closest friends. This summer, they spent three days with us at our home. We he been through all of life’s passages together—the birth of our children and their children—the work of building careers and families—the joys and disappointments of life—the sweetness of every milestone and the sorrow of every loss.

We still agree about very little when it comes to politics, but we he civil conversations—even debates from time to time—and usually end up agreeing to disagree. But we always respect each other, and we often learn from each other. And, after 53 years, we love them like family.

During your time here, please don’t overlook your Alan. Please don’t judge people quickly based on their outward appearances or your first impressions. One of the many reasons we admitted students from around the world, people with every interest imaginable, is because we learn from our differences. As you get to know your roommates and your classmates, try to be slow to judge and quick to understand. Give everyone the benefit of the doubt, at least initially, not just at Harvard but throughout life and you will be surprised by the number of friends you will acquire, people quite different from you, but people who will enrich your life immensely.

If you are like most Harvard students, the friendships you make in the next few days will stay with you forever. A few of you are even likely to meet your spouse or life partner here. I know this statement to be true because I attend a lot of Harvard reunions. I hear the same stories over and over about lifelong relationships that started during the first few days of school. Your best friends, people with whom you will share your life together, are sitting among you. Your job is to find them.

Let me also acknowledge that you may meet people at Harvard that you do not like. Harvard is a microcosm of the larger world, and everything that you may find objectionable in the larger world is present in some measure here. We are not perfect, but we strive to be better. While trying to be a caring, understanding, and welcoming community, we cannot protect you from everything that is unpleasant. Our job is to prepare you for the world you will inhabit when you graduate. And that world is not going to treat you with kid gloves simply because you he a Harvard degree. We would not be doing you a for if we placed you in an emotional bubble and did not let your emotional immune systems develop. We are here to prepare you to deal with a world that will challenge you—and sometimes even offend you. I hope you will master these skills while you are at Harvard so you can devote your life to repairing a world that we all know is far from perfect.

I know from conversations that I he already had with some of you that you want to change the world. Good for you. That is one of the reasons we admitted you. But if you want to change the world, you need to master the art of persuading people to change their minds. And I guarantee that you will not be effective at doing so unless you first he the experience of changing your own.

Our motto at Harvard is Veritas. It is more than a motto. It is the reason we exist, to seek the truth. Over time, truth is revealed, it needs to be tested on the anvil of competing ideas. If you really seek the truth, you must engage with those who think differently than you. Even more importantly, you must be willing to change your mind – to be persuaded by a better argument or new information. Only when you he this experience will you be well equipped to make a difference in the world. This is another skill I hope you will master at Harvard.

On move in day, Adele and I met many of your families. We witnessed more than one emotional goodbye. Most of you he been at the center of your loved one’s lives since the day you entered their world. Now you are gone, and, for many left behind, the silence is deafening. You he many people to help you make your transition to college—academic advisors, peer advisors, residential advisors, proctors, deans—you name it. But your loved ones are on their own. They are also going through a big adjustment, and it is up to you to help them through it. Please give them a call from time to time, not a text – a call, and ask them how they are doing. I guarantee you they will appreciate it.

Class of 2026, we he great expectations for you. I hope that Harvard is everything you dreamed it will be—intellectually, socially and personally. I only wish I could be there at your 50th reunion so you could tell me how your life turned out and the role that Harvard played in it.

Best of luck to each of you, and Godspeed.

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