Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Words For New Students
5. Welcome Home 3
6. The Freedom Of This Place 10
7. A More Exemplary Life Begun 17
8. 2000 and You 23
9. What Is Fitting 30
10. The Way to Worry 37
11. Hazards of Success 44
12. What Country, Friends, Is This? 52
13. Of Preparation for an Unknown World 59
14. Learning by Choice and by Chance 66
15. Words at Midterm 73
16. Aspects of Education
17. On Administration 83
18. An Anatomy of Multiculturalism 88
19. On Residential Education 98
20. On Sexual Harassment 101
21. Two Writers’ Beginnings: Eudora Welty in the Neighborhood of Richard Wright 104
22. At the Millennium: An Agenda Going Forward 127
23. Taking Democracy to School 133
24. Free Speech and Its Discontents 154
25. The New Internationalism: Globalizing Comparative Literature 168
26. Official Business
27. Remarks on the Tercentennial of Yale University 185
28. Selections from the Report on Yale College Education 189
29. Forms of Farewell
30. Baccalaureate Readings 207
31. Singing in the Prospect of Time 211
32. Remarks on Accepting the Presidency of Duke University 217