It is then that I realize that we all have a higher calling, a necessary purpose here at Harvard: to use what we have gained from this unparalleled institution and contribute something to a world that too often seems divided. Let us not fail our nation or the ideals that so many before us have stood for, and let us continue on, doing the things that students do, aware that overarching our lives is a higher calling for action.
Michael F. Maltese
Sept. 16, 2001
The writer is a special student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.