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...following is the complete text of President Bok's commencement address which was delivered at Notre Dame University...
...American higher education. For over 30 years, Ted Hesburgh has taught us all that it means to be an educator in the fullest sense of the word. At a time when so many of us are little more than energetic administrators, Ted has succeeded not only in strengthening Notre Dame academically but in teaching audiences everywhere about the values that matter in our society...
There are also many ways in which we can work to encourage cooperation, and institutions like Notre Dame and Harvard will clearly have a role to play. Whatever our competitive problems may be in automobiles or silicon chips, American universities are now preeminent in the world and will undoubtedly remain so for a generation or more. In country after country, old educational traditions are changing and the United States is becoming the country of choice for able students wishing to study abroad. In these circumstances, we have an unprecedented chance to attract the future leaders from most nations...
...your years at Notre Dame, the university hastried to prepare you for these responsibilities byoffering courses on foregin languages and othercultures, by surrounding you with classmates formother lands, by providing fellowships and programsto study abroad. All these activities andopportunities have been conceived, at least inpart, to enlarge your tolerance for culturaldiversity, to awaken your interest in foreignlands, to broaden your perspective to include theentire world as your frame of reference...
Father Ted Hesburgh, a commanding visionary and a "darlin' man," retires after 35 distinguished years as head of Notre Dame...