Includes bibliographical references.

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 writer's 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.