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Good bye and good luck!#哈佛大学校长的告别演讲     美文于我,从来不意味着华丽辞藻的堆砌,更不是平仄工整的秩序,美文应是一种思想的折射,一种语言之上的光华,简单,简洁,却又是一个谜,一种挑战,一种意味深长。套用张爱玲那句常用的诗句:于千万人之中,遇见你要遇见的人。于千万年之中,时间无涯的荒野里,没有早一步,也没有迟一步,遇上了也只能轻轻地说一句:“你也在这里吗?”      希望我选的文章也能给你带来如此感觉,于愿足矣。 Good bye and good luck!      by Lawrence H. Summers, President of Harvard University      Today, I speak from this podium a final time as your president. As I depart, I want to thank all of you - students, faculty, alumni and staff - with whom I have been privileged to work over these past years. Some of us have had our disagreements, but I know that which unites us transcends that which divides us. I leave with a full heart, grateful for the opportunity I have had to lead this remarkable institution.      Since I delivered my inaugural address, 56 months ago, I have learned an enormous amount—about higher education, about leadership, and also about myself. Some things look different to me than they did five years ago. The world that today’s Harvard’s graduates are entering is a profoundly different one than the world administrators entered.      It is a world where opportunities have never been greater for those who know how to teach children to read, or those who know how to distribute financial risk; never greater for those who understand the cell and the pixel; never greater for those who can master, and navigate between, legal codes, faith traditions, computer platforms, political viewpoints.      It is also a world where some are left further and further behind - those who are not educated, those trapped in poverty and violence, those for whom equal opportunity is just a hollow phrase.      Scientific and technological advances are enabling us to comprehend the furthest reaches of the cosmos, the most basic constituents of matter, and the miracle of life.      At the same time, today, the actions, and inaction, of human beings imperil not only life on the planet, but the very life of the planet.      Globalization is making the world smaller, faster and richer. Still, 9/11, avian flu, and Iran remind us that a smaller, faster world is not necessarily a safer world.      Our world is bursting with knowledge - but desperately in need of wisdom. Now, when sound bites are getting shorter, when instant messages crowd out essays, and when individual lives grow more frenzied, college graduates capable of deep reflection are what our world needs.      For all these reasons I believed - and I believe even more strongly today - in the unique and irreplaceable mission of universities.      Universities are where the wisdom we cannot afford to lose is preserved from generation to generation. Among all human institutions, universities can look beyond present norms to future possibilities, can look through current considerations to emergent opportunities.
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