Our Yale Citizenship
-- Yale College Opening Assembly Address, Class of
2022
Peter Salovey, President of Yale University
Saturday, August 25, 2018
耶鲁公民身份
——耶鲁大学2022届学生开学典礼致辞
耶鲁大学校长必德
2018年8月25日周六
Good morning! On behalf of my colleagues here on stage, I extend a warm welcome to all the family members with us today. And to the first-years, transfer students, and Eli Whitney students: Welcome to Yale!
大家早上好，在此我谨代表各位同事向2022届的本科新生们、转校生们以及Eli Whitney项目的学生们表示最诚挚的欢迎。欢迎来到耶鲁！
Today is a day of pageantry and excitement. Many of you bring members of your extended families to cheer you on, celebrating this milestone with justifiable pride and just a little anxiety.
今天是激动人心的一天，也是值得庆祝的一天。你们中的许多人今天和家人一起来到现场，带着自豪和一丝紧，一起来庆祝人生中的这一重要里程碑。
Today is also a day of Yale traditions. You will encounter countless wonderful rituals here, some recent and some quite old. Many are steeped in history yet remain popular, even beloved, among Yalies. (And remember, you are now a Yalie!)
今天也是耶鲁诸多传统中的一天。你们将看到很多精彩的仪式，有些是近几年才开始的，有些则相当古老。许多历史悠久的仪式，至今仍然相当流行，深受耶鲁人喜爱。当然，现在在座的你们也是耶鲁人！
One of our Yale traditions is singing an old song, “Bright College Years.” Written in the late 19th century, it is our unofficial, but widely acknowledged, alma mater. You will hear it at many campus events, often sung by the Yale Glee Club and other Yale groups, and played by the Yale Precision Marching Band after football games.
耶鲁的传统之一是唱一首古老的歌曲，叫Bright College Years 《美好校园年华》。它诞生于19世纪晚期，虽然是非官方的歌曲，却受到广泛认可。你将在许多校园活动中听到这首歌，通常是由耶鲁合唱团或其他耶鲁团体演唱，或是在美式橄榄球比赛后由耶鲁大学仪仗队进行演奏。
Now, I am not a singer. I am a bluegrass bass player. But I hope you will indulge me for a moment:
当然，我不是个歌手。我其实是一名蓝草贝斯手。但现在，我希望你们能允许我给大家小唱一段：
The seasons come, the seasons go,
The earth is green or white with snow,
But time and change shall naught avail
To break the friendships formed at Yale.
春去秋来，花落花开
碧绿草地，转瞬皑皑
星斗虽移，世事或迁
耶鲁情谊，坚固永远
These couplets are some of my favorites from “Bright College Years,” and, in my experience, they are truthful. I suspect they will prove accurate for you as well. But it is the song’s final lines, popular at alumni gatherings and always sung with gusto, complete with the waving of handkerchiefs, that I want to use to launch my topic for today:
这是《美好校园年华》歌词中我最喜欢的一段，也是相当真切的一段。我相信有一天你们也会发现这段话的道理。但是我想用来开始今天演讲主题的，是这首歌的最后几行，也就是在校友聚会中深受欢迎且被多次传唱的一段：
Oh, let us strive that ever we
May let these words our watch cry be,
Where’er upon life’s sea we sail:
“For God, for Country and for Yale!”
努力奋发，一如从前
相与相勉，牢记箴言
鼓勇扬帆，沧海征途
为主为国，也为耶鲁
“For God, for Country, and for Yale:” A member of the Yale College Class of 1881 named Henry Durand wrote this ballad, and the final lines were meant to be a rallying cry. It made sense in those days to presume, as Durand did, that most Yale students shared, or at least professed to share, the same god and the same country. Most Yalies, until recent decades, were white, Protestant, and American. And of course, until fifty years ago in Yale College, they were all men.“为主为国，也为耶鲁。”这首歌是耶鲁大学1881届一位名叫Henry Durand的学生所作，最后这一段歌词是为了号召大家团结奋发。在当时，像Henry Durand一样，大多数的耶鲁学生都来自同一个国家，信奉同一。甚至到本世纪上半叶，大多数耶鲁人都是白人、新教徒且来自美国本土。直到50年前，耶鲁学生甚至全部为男性。
