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we believe in the power of community as an essential educational force.
我们相信集体是一种必不可少的教育力量。
The most important goal of higher education: it was to ensure that graduates can recognize when “someone is talking rot”.
高等教育最重要的目标就是确保毕业生能够明辨是非。
We learn this through challenging and being challenged, through being confronted by disagreement and difference and amidst it all finding your way.
我们会通过挑战和被挑战、通过直面异议和分歧来学习这种能力，并在这过程中找到自己的方向。
It is its diversity, its elements of unfamiliarity, its elements of difference that make college the extraordinary experience that I know you will find it to be.
正是它的多样性，它的陌生元素和差异化元素，使在大学的经历非同凡响，我知道终有一天你们会有此感悟。
Let us each do our part to make universities the place of mutual respect that will enable all of us to be our best selves.
让我们都尽己所能，努力使大学成为相互尊重的地方，从而让我们所有人都能成为最好的自己。
Many of the most important ideas you will come across over the next four years will not come from a professor or a lab or a book or an online assignment. They will come from those sitting next to you right now.
在接下来的四年里，你们将接触到许多最重要的想法，这些想法不是来自教授、实验室、书本或网上作业，而是来自此刻坐在你们身边的人。
We are committed to education and learning as vehicles for human betterment.
我们致力于通过教育和学习来促进人类进步。
We believe that the pursuit of truth requires a continuing process of testing and reassessment, of argument, and challenge and debate. We are never so self-satisfied as to believe we have reached it perfectly.
我们认为，追求真理需要一个持续测试和再评、不断论证、挑战和辩论的过程。我们永不自满，认为我们已经完美地达到了目标。
It is up to us to universities that the talents of every member of this community are fully welcomed and engaged in that work.
it is up to sb. to do sth. 由某人决定做某事
大学有责任确保集体中每个成员的才华得到充分鼓舞和施展。
Universities are about knowledge and the pursuit of truth.
大学是学习知识和追求真理的殿堂
When the admissions office decided on you, it was because they wanted your voice, your contribution as part of this creative community.
大学招生办公室决定录取你们，是因为我们希望你们的声音、你们的贡献会融入这个具有创造性的集体。
Many of the questions you come to ask, the challenges you have to face, the new perspectives you come to embrace will be the result of your interactions with one another.
你们提出的很多问题、不得不面对的挑战以及逐渐接受的新视角，都将源于你们之间的彼此互动。