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1、哈佛大学校长福斯特在2021年毕业典礼英语演讲稿哈佛高校校长福斯特在2021年毕业典礼英语演讲稿It is always a pleasure to greeta sea of alumni on Commencement afternooneven 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 veritable ocean ofa
2、nticipation.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 Wordsworths well-known poem echoed in mymind as I thoughta
3、bout 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 extremeweatherfirst for superstorm Sandyand then for Nemo, the record-breaking
4、February blizzard. The third was of course the day ofBostons lockdown in theaftermath of the tragic Marathon bombings. This was a year thatchallengedfundamental assumptions about lifes security, stability and predictability.Yet as I reflected on theseintrusions from a world so very much with us, I w
5、as 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 here for a two-day conferenceco-sponsore
6、d 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 gathering represents justone example of
7、the wide range of activities across theUniversity dedicated toaddressing the challenges of climate change. How can we advance thesciencethat helps us understand climate changeand perhaps avert it? How can wedevisesolutionsfrom new technologies to principles of urban designthat mightmitigate it?How c
8、an we envision the public policies to manage and respond toit? Harvard is deeplyengaged with the broad issues of energy andenvironmentoffering more than 250 courses inthis area, gathering 225 facultythrough our environment center and its programs, enrolling100 doctoralstudents from 7 Schools and man
9、y 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 reimagine cities foran era of increasinglythre
10、atening weather; they are helping to fashionenvironmental regulations and internationalclimate agreements.So the weather isnt somethingthat simply happens at Harvard, even though it may haveseemed that way when wehad to close twice this year. It is a focus of study and of research, aswework to confr
11、ont 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 help ensure the capture oftheescaped suspect, and H
12、arvard 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 we also witnessedour colleagues magnificent eff
13、orts 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. Doctors, nurses and other staff, manyfrom ouraffiliated
14、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 deeply proud of thecontributions madeby members of the
15、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, evenaswe 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.