This virus can lay anyone low. We all need to be vigilant and keep following guidelines to limit our contact with others. Your swift actions over the p ast few weeks—to respond to the needs of our community, to fulfill our teaching mission, and to pursue research that will save lives—have moved me deeply and made me extraordinarily grateful and proud. I hope to see as few of you in our situation as possible, and I urge you to continue following the guidance of public health experts and the advice and orders of our government officials.
The world needs your courage, creativity and wisdom to overcome this virus. I wish you all good health.
The world needs your courage, creativity, and intelligence to beat this virus—wishing each of you good health.
Best wishes
All the best,
Larry
Not long ago, on March 13th, Lawrence Bacow, president of Harvard, informed the students to leave the campus, and the last paragraph read as follows:
No one knows what we will face in the next few weeks, but everyone knows very well that Covid-19 will test the degree of our kindness and generosity, the degree of surpassing ourselves and abandoning personal interests.
In this unexpected, unprecedented, complicated and confused world, our task is to present our personality charm and personal skills to the best. May wisdom and elegance accompany us forward!
No one knows what we will face in the weeks ahead, but everyone knows enough to understand that COVID-19 will test our capacities to be kind and generous, and to see beyond ourselves and our own interests. Our task now is to bring the best of who we are and what we do to a world that is more complex and more confused than any of us would like it to be. May we all proceed with wisdom and grace.
As the president of Harvard said, may wisdom and elegance accompany us forward, and we will work together to tide over the difficulties!