耶魯?shù)摹镑俭t會”是什么？曾經(jīng)的耶魯校長小金曼布魯斯特為什么拒絕加入

來聽今天的講解:

A:If only someone patted me on the shoulder and ordered me to go back to my room.

要是這時候有個人拍一下我肩膀，告訴我“回到你的房間去”就好了。

B:You want to join in the Skull and Bones?

你想加入骷髏會呀？

A:Yes. Don’t you?

是啊。你不想嗎？

B:I do. But I don’t think any of us met their requirements. You know, to be one of its members, you need to be extremely excellent in every respect.

我也想。但是，我覺得我們倆都不夠條件。要知道，想成為骷髏會的成員，自身條件必須在各個方面都很優(yōu)越。

A:That’s true. I think it's every Yalie，s dream to join it. No one will be fool enough to refuse the request from Skull and Bones.

那倒是。我想，每個耶魯人都夢想加入骷髏會吧。一旦受到遨請，沒有人會傻到拒絕它。

B:I heard that there was somebody who said NO to the organization. It’s former Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. Do you know him?

我可聽說，有一個人曾經(jīng)對骷髏會說"不”哦。就是曾經(jīng)的耶魯校長小金曼布魯斯特。你知道他嗎？

A:Yes, of course I do. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. And as an undergraduate, he was the chairman of The Yale Daily News. He was also an ardent opponent of America’s intervention into World War II and was an outspoken isolationist. No wonder he was valued by Skull and Bones.

是的，當然知道。他出身豪門，大學期間，又擔任《耶魯每日新聞> 的主編，是一名熱情的反戰(zhàn)者，反對美國介入二戰(zhàn)，還是一位直言不諱的孤立主義者。難怪他會被骷髏會看中呢。

B:But why he refused such a good opportunity?

可是，他為什么拒絕這么好的機會呢？

A:God knows.

誰知道呢。

B:Anyway, he was really something. There were a lot of awe-inspiring events in his whole lifetime. You know, when he served as Yale president, he weathered a succession of controversies such as rejecting calls to dismiss the university chaplain.

不管怎么說，他真是個了不起的人物。他一生中做過許多令人肅然起敬的事情。 你應該知道吧，他做耶魯校長的時候，經(jīng)受住了一系列爭議，比如，他拒絕解聘校園牧師

A:What’s more, under Mr. Brewster, Yale enhanced the quality of its faculty and student body and added new programs in various fields. Thanks to his effort, Yale has grown to be a first-rate academic program that was excellent in many areas.

此外，在布魯斯特校長的領導下，耶魯?shù)慕搪毠に郊皩W生層次都得到了提高， 各個領域都增加了許多新項目。由于他的努力，耶魯大學形成了在各個領域都很 出色的一流的學術體系。

B:That’s true. Yale is where she is because of those wisdom presidents. Ah, one great contribution of Mr. Brewster was that during his tenure, Yale enrolled more minority students and began admitting women as undergraduates.

是的。耶魯能有今天，那些英明的校長們功不可設。對了，布魯斯特校長還有一個偉大貢獻,就是在他任職期間，耶魯擴招少數(shù)民族的學生,并且開始招收女大學生。

A:But by 1977, the year he stepped down from his Yale post, there was widespread criticism of his presidency and of university activities and policies in his era. Yale had various financial problems.

但是，到他1977年離職的時候，針對他任內(nèi)的業(yè)績、組織的活動、實行的政策， 存在大片譴責之聲。那時候，耶魯面臨著各種各樣的財政問題。

B:You mean his attitude toward antiwar protesters and people in the civil rights movement on the Yale campus?

你是指他對校內(nèi)的反戰(zhàn)者以及民權運動者的態(tài)度嗎？

A:Yeah, there was widespread ill feeling among alumni who believe that Mr. Brewster was too lenient toward those people. But I don’t agree.

是的。校友們對此存在普遍不滿，他們認為布魯斯特對那些人太仁慈了。但是， 我不這樣認為。

B:I see. During the Vietnam War in 1960s, the U.S. government ordered that Conscientious Objectors are not allowed to be granted scholarship. While many prestigious universities in U.S. followed this instruction, Yale still adhered to its academic independence and continued to put the applicant’s performance as the sole principle for scholarship, without observing government’s regulations.

這我知道。20世紀60年代正值越戰(zhàn)期間，美國政府下令：凡是自稱以道德或宗 教理由反戰(zhàn)的學生一律不準得到獎學金。當時美國許多名校都遵照政府的指示行 事，惟獨耶魯堅守學術獨立的一貫作風，仍以申請者的成績?yōu)榭紤]獎學金的惟一 原則，完全漠視政府的規(guī)定。

A:As a result, Yale lost a large number of funds from the federal government and went into financial troubles several times.

結(jié)果，耶魯失去了來自聯(lián)邦政府的一大筆基金，經(jīng)濟上一度陷入困境。

B:However, in my opinion, Mr. Brewster did the right thing because he maintained Yale’s spirit.

但是，我認為，布魯斯特校長做得對，他維護了耶魯?shù)木瘛?/font>