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The words describe so exactly the atmosphere of jostling, tumbling ideas I live in that I will wink at them for once, and put on a deliberate air to say that my ideas of college have changed.
如果用十分準確的語言來描述我的生存環境，那么，面對磕磕絆絆、四處沖撞的思想意識，我會這樣說：我已經對它們視而不見，而且，我還要故作深沉地說，我已經完全轉變了對大學的看法。
While my days at Radcliffe were still in the future, they were encircled with a halo of romance, which they have lost; but in the transition from romantic to actual I have learned many things I should never have known had I not tried the experiment. One of them is the precious science of patience, which teaches us that we should take our education as we would take a walk in the country, leisurely, our minds hospitably open to impressions of every sort. Such knowledge floods the soul unseen with a soundless tidal wave of deepening thought. "Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
我在拉德克利夫學院的學習生涯仍處在來日方長的（起步）階段，但是浪漫的光環已然褪去。從浪漫到現實的轉變過程中，我所獲頗豐，可以說，如果沒有實踐經驗，你永遠也不會了解到事物的真諦。在諸多經驗之中，最寶貴的就是關于“忍耐的學問”?！叭棠汀苯探o我們這樣一種求學心態——我們應該把接受教育的過程視做一次鄉間散步，從容不迫之間，我們的思想就會敞開胸懷，盡情地接納天地萬物。這樣求得的知識猶如一波無聲的思想潮汐，將我們的靈魂悄然浸潤?！爸R就是力量”固然正確，但是，知識更應該是愉快的，因為要擁有知識——特別是廣博、深奧的知識——就需要我們具備去蕪存真、點石成金的本事。了解人類進步過程中的思想和行為，你就會觸摸到幾個世紀以來最偉大的人性脈搏；如果你感覺不到脈搏的律動和爬向天國的腳步，那么你一定是個對生命的和弦充耳不聞之輩。
