Contents -- Preface -- Words for New Students -- Welcome Home -- The Freedom of This Place -- A More Exemplary Life Begun -- 2000 and You -- What Is Fitting -- The Way to Worry -- Hazards of Success -- What Country, Friends, Is This? -- Of Preparation for an Unknown World -- Learning by Choice and by Chance -- Words at Midterm -- Aspects of Education -- On Administration -- An Anatomy of Multiculturalism -- On Residential Education -- On Sexual Harassment -- Two Writers' Beginnings: Eudora Welty in the Neighborhood of Richard Wright -- At the Millennium: An Agenda Going Forward -- Taking Democracy to School -- Free Speech and Its Discontents -- The New Internationalism: Globalizing Comparative Literature -- Official Business -- Remarks on the Tercentennial of Yale University -- Selections from the Report on Yale College Education -- Forms of Farewell -- Baccalaureate Readings -- Singing in the Prospect of Time -- Remarks on Accepting the Presidency of Duke University.