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...past. The incoming graduate-student class will also be slightly larger than the last, and it boasts the highest admissions yield in recent history. Similarly, the yield in the College will exceed last year’s mark of 76 percent. The College and FAS continue to attract the world??€™s most outstanding faculty and students...
Harvard undergraduates continue to be deeply embedded in the transformative, cutting-edge research and scholarship of our faculty. Our students become engaged in forging new discoveries and new ways of thinking in fields that bear on the world??€™s foremost challenges and opportunities, from renewable-energy policies, to stem cell science, to human rights. Our identity as an undergraduate college at the heart of a thriving research university informs every aspect of Harvard’s approach to a 21st century liberal-arts education...
...third lesson: The world really needs you. Bill Gates reminded us of this when he visited a couple of weeks ago. We must, he said, have the world??€™s best minds working on the world??€™s biggest problems. But you knew that already. You have developed an enhanced sense of both opportunity and responsibility. You are choosing careers and lives that reflect an outlook and an urgency derived in no small part from what has happened in the world since you arrived in Cambridge less than four years...
...class knows how to do this, it is yours. It is what the world??€™s crises, and your liberal arts education, have trained you to do. Keep asking the big, irrelevant questions; keep thinking beyond the present. Then live what you have learned...
This year, we saw a series of crises and misadventures rattle the entire world??€™s peace of mind, be it the continuing global economic malaise or the steady disintegration of order in Europe and Central and Western Asia. However, throughout this period of global hardship and struggle, we also witnessed harbingers of happier economic times and a safer, less turbulent world...