填空题 Today, I speak from this podium a final time as your president. As I depart, I want to thank all of you, students, faculty, {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}, with whom I have been privileged to work over these past years. Some of us have had our disagreement, but I know that which unites us {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}.
Some things look different to me than they did five years ago. The world that today's Harvard's graduates are entering is {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}than the world administrators entered.
It is a world where opportunities {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}for those who know how to teach children to read, or those who know how to {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}; never greater for those who can master {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}legal codes, faith traditions, computer platforms, {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}.
It is also a world where some are left further and further behind, those who are not educated, those {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}, those for whom equal opportunity is just {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}.
Scientific and technological advances are enabling us to comprehend the {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}the cosmos, the most basic constituents of matter, and {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}. At the same time, today, {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}of human beings imperil not only life on the planet, but {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Globalization is making the world smaller, faster and richer. Still, 9/11, avian flu, and war remind us that a smaller, faster world is {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}.
Our world is bursting with knowledge, but desperately {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Now, when sound bites are getting shorter, when {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}, and when individual lives grow more frenzied, college graduates {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}are what our world needs. For all these reasons I believed, and I believe even more strongly today, in {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}of universities.
Universities are where the wisdom we cannot afford to lose is {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Among all human institutions, universities can {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}to future possibilities, can look through current considerations to emergent opportunities.