普林斯顿大学校长在新学年开学典礼上致欢迎辞，强调了人文教育的重要性。他强调，人文教育不仅是为了职业成功，还能激发学习的热情和对知识的追求。教育应当帮助学生成为全面发展的公民，参与公共和私人生活。
Please let me begin by saying again what a pleasure it is to welcome you to Princeton.
I'm delighted to greet all of you who gather here today as you begin your Princeton journeys.
The vibrant weeks at the beginning of each new academic year invigorate all of us, and they are especially memorable for newcomers to campus.
I guarantee that there will be sights and conversations from this week, moments of surprise or wonder or newfound friendship that you will recall vividly for many decades.
Fei-Fei Li, with whom we will talk later today, recounts in this year's pre-read impressions of Princeton that have stayed with her since her graduation 25 years ago.
She talks about pale cement paths that slice green lawns into polygonal fragments and walls of brown brick pockmarked by centuries of history.
She might well be referring to this lawn here in front of NASA Hall, where we gather now.
Professor Li also says that Princeton's libraries captured her heart.
Because the collections made her feel that she was in the presence of something transcendent.
I love that idea of something transcendent because I think it expresses a profound insight about this place and the education that happens here.
