不可不知的美國100所名校（英漢雙語版）

哈佛大學首當其衝，多數都是私立大學，這與國內倒是大相徑庭。

R2大學當中還有，就怕你進不去的歷史悠久的工科頂尖大學 老布什總統爺爺的母校 19世紀和MIT齊名的Stevens Institute of Technology，德州第二大的富家子弟私立大學Fort worth市中心 Texas Christian University， 兩個距離只有40公里整天死磕到底的兩個德州4萬學生規模的大學Texas State University University of Texas at San Antonio，航天科技的花園城市University of Alabama in Huntsville，科羅拉多泉號稱美國西部山區第一富裕 人均收入進入美國前十University of Colorado Colorado Springs，你申請過的私立衛理公會大學 富家子弟學校University of Denver，巴爾迪摩市南郊區的醫學院超強的University of Maryland, Baltimore County，醫學院很強的University of Missouri–Kansas City，商學院很強的University of Nebraska at Omaha，University of North Carolina at Charlotte Public Charlotte NC University of North Carolina at Greensboro 天主教私立富家子弟學校 俯瞰大海 純白色建築羣 美極了的 University of San Diego，俄克拉何馬州第二大城市石油城 私立大學University of Tulsa，科研經費已經2億美元鐵定進入R1的Utah State University，費城西郊富人區的天主教私立大學 籃球超級好全國總冠軍 Villanova University，北卡州的私立大學教育質量超高的Wake Forest University，馬塞諸塞州私立工科大學 清華大學校長梅貽琦的母校 就業率很高的Worcester Polytechnic Institute

純純的乾貨，乾的都有點兒讀不下去，不過還是努力掃完了！對美國的大學有了丟丟了解，在那裏會發光的不只是公立大學，更多的私立學校同樣取得非凡的成績，他們的歷史延續性很強，動輒都幾百年的歷史，讓我們有幾千年文化的國家汗顏！他們的教學，管理都別具一格、各有特色，就像有的學校學生可以自行管理，他們老師和學生的比例很小，他們基本都和社會接軌，他們研究生的比例其實很高，等等，我們的距離不是一點

2022年11月19日 星期六 祝福早安 天氣多雲 氣溫11℃ 《不可不知的美國100所名校》 A belief is not merely an idea that mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind. 信仰不只是一種受頭腦支配的思想, 它也是一種可以支配頭腦的思想。 堅定的信念，是我們掌握命運的前提。 我們有怎樣的信念，就會有怎樣的人生，沒有堅定的信念，我們必將一生迷茫彷徨，無所事事。 成功，首先要從心開始。外界的因素經常會干擾我們前進，但是我們前進力量的來源就是我們的信念。只要信念堅定，我們就有無堅不摧的可能。 You just have to show up or show at so often. Time after time you gotta wake up and you gotta drive. You gotta be driven to get something done now. 你要讓世人看見你的努力，你要一次次地覺醒，你要找到自己的動力，你要讓一股力量驅使你去實現夢想。 丹佛大學：爲了科學與信仰 英文導讀 Back to its origin The University of Denver (DU)， founded in 1864， is the oldest private university in the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States.The University of Denver is a coeducational， four-year university in Denver， Colorado. On March 3， 1864 the university was founded as the Colorado Seminary by John Evans， the former Governor of Colorado Territory， who had been appointed by President Abraham Lincoln. By 1880， the Colorado Seminary had been renamed the University of Denver. The University of Denver offers a dynamic learning environment that prizes innovation， cross-disciplinary exploration， and adventurous learning partnerships between students and faculty. Nearly 75 percent of all University of Denver students participate in study abroad programs， studying everything from economics in Budapest to engineering in Australia. The heart of the campus has a number of historic buildings. The longest-standing building is University Hall. More information System： The University of Denver is organized into 11 colleges and schools including： Daniels College of Business， Sturm College of Law， The Women"s College of the University of Denver， University College University of Denver， Morgridge College of Education， Graduate School of Professional Psychology， Graduate School of Social Work， Josef Korbel School of International Studies， Lamont School of Music， School of Engineering and Computer Science， Media， Film， and Journalism Studies. City show： Denver is a consolidated city and county located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Denver is nicknamed the Mile-High City. 生詞助讀 appoint [pint] vt. 任命；指定 participate [pɑ：tisipeit] vi. 參與；參加 中文概述 丹佛大學是一所四年制私立大學，成立於1864年。學校最初的名字爲科羅拉多州神學院，直到1880年，學校才被改名爲丹佛大學。丹佛大學位於科羅拉多州首府丹佛市，是洛基山地區最老且最大的一所私立大學。 酒店及餐室專業管理課程聞名遐邇，全美名列前茅。商學院辦得非常好，尤其是會計、專業管理及財務。國際研究是丹佛大學另一較好的學科，學生並且有機會到外國進修，所得學分一律予以承認。其他不錯的學科還有化學、物理、音樂、計算機科學、心理學和大衆傳播。學生選修最多的學科是商科、社會科學、歷史學、計算機及自然科學、生物科學。其商學院始建於1908年，是美國8所最古老的商學院之一，與哈佛、耶魯等學院齊名。 丹佛大學規定第一、二年學生都必須修讀一些核心課程，學生可選讀人文學科、數學、外文、社會科學、傳意學、自然科學及"大學經驗"，跨進第三年才需要選擇主修及副修科目。美國前國務卿賴斯就是該校的學生。 丹佛大學校園的景色就像一個大的植物園，校園生活亦是多彩多姿，不管你是玩音樂、游泳、滑雪、戲劇表演、報紙專欄寫作、校園義工等，你都可以享受體驗不同的文化和娛樂。另外，丹佛大學的學生可以憑自己的學生卡免費乘坐輕軌和公交車。 夢想成功錄 The three foundations of learning： seeing much ，suffering much， and studying much. 求學的三個基本條件：多觀察、多磨礪、多研究。 A generation without a cause in its youth has no legacy in its old age. 一代人如果年輕時候沒有事業，老了就不會有遺產可以傳下去。 紐約州立大學賓漢姆頓分校：見識由廣入深 英文導讀 Back to its origin The State University of New York， Binghamton， also known as Binghamton University， (commonly referred to as Binghamton or BU)， is a public research university in the U.S. state of New York. The university is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Binghamton University was first established in 1946 as Triple Cities College to serve the needs of local veterans returning from World War II of the Triple Cities area. Thomas J. Watson of IBM was an early supporter of the college and provided some of the initial support and helped to establish it in Endicott， New York； the college was a branch of Syracuse University. Originally， Triple Cities College offered local students the first two years of their education， while the following two were spent at Syracuse. However， starting in the 1948-1949 year， students were allowed to earn their degrees entirely in Binghamton. When the college split from Syracuse and became incorporated into the State University of New York (SUNY) in 1950， it was renamed Harpur College， in honor of Robert Harpur， a Colonial teacher and pioneer who settled in the Binghamton area. Of the four University Centers (Stony Brook， Albany， Buffalo and Binghamton)， Binghamton was the first to join SUNY. More information System： Binghamton comprises the following colleges and schools including： Harpur College of Arts and Sciences， The College of Community and Public Affairs， The Decker School of Nursing， The Graduate School of Education， The School of Management， Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science. Note： Binghamton offers more than 80 academic undergraduate majors and more than 30 graduate majors. There also exist interdisciplinary programs that allow individualized degree programs at both the undergraduate and graduate level. There are also several combined-degree programs which allow students to complete both their undergraduate and graduate degrees in five years. City show： Binghamton is the principal city and cultural center of the Greater Binghamton metropolitan area (also known as the "Triple Cities").Binghamton is known for its bicycling and walking clubs， facilities， and trails. Binghamton is a transportation crossroad and a manufacturing center， and has been known at different times for the production of cigars， shoes， and high-tech products. Binghamton has a humid continental climate， with cold， snowy winters and warm， wet summers. 生詞助讀 veteran [vetrn] n. 老兵；老手 split [split] vi. 離開；被劈開；斷絕關係 individualize [individjulaiz] vt. 賦予個性 中文概述 紐約州立大學賓漢姆頓分校始建於1946年，位於賓漢姆頓市，已成爲美國東北部頂尖的公立大學，是紐約州立大學系統中排名和聲望最高的大學。 其前身爲三城學院，設校目的是爲第二次世界大戰後的老兵進行戰後技能訓練。於公元1950年併入紐約州立大學體系，當時校名爲哈波學院，直到1992年正式改名爲紐約州立大學賓漢姆頓分校。 賓漢姆頓分校設有六個學院： 護理學院、人文科學學院、社會與公共事務學院、教育學院、管理學院、工程和應用科學學院。賓漢姆頓大學的商學院在美國公立大學中屬於佼佼者，學院的師資力量很強，在各個領域內均有建樹。護理學院是本校就業率最高的學院，就業率達到了100%，相當於一進入該學院，就意味着一隻腳已經踏上了工作崗位。學生選讀最多的學科是社會科學、商科管理、文科、心理學和生命科學。 賓漢姆頓大學靠山面河，校園前有美國東海岸最長的河流--薩斯奎漢納河流過，爲繁忙的校園生活增加了不少悠閒的情趣。校園並有四分之一的面積是自然保護區，其中包括森林、溼地與湖泊。在自然保護區旁設置了紐約州唯一一座多溫調節溫室，極大地方便了植物學、生物學、生物化學等相關科系的研究。 賓漢姆頓市是標準的大陸型氣候，冬冷夏熱，四季分明。秋天是賓漢姆頓最美麗的季節，滿城火紅的楓葉爲這個冷色系色彩濃郁的北方之都增添了難得的熱情。 You gotta be willing to stand on your beliefs. Cuz a lot of times you're the only one who can see it. And other people don't see it really. But you gotta really believe in what you've got inside of you that's telling you and driving you to a certain goal. 你要勇於堅持自己的信念。因爲，很多時候，和其他人相比，你纔是最清醒的人。但是，你必須對自己的夢想有信心，要對你的目標和動力有信心。 I hope you learn humility by surviving failure 親愛的孫子，我希望你在經受失敗的考驗之後能學會謙卑， and that you learn to be honest even when no one is looking. 也希望你能學會誠實，即使在沒有人注視你的時候。 I hope you learn to make your bed and mow the lawn and wash the car- 我希望你能學會自己疊被子，自己修剪草坪，自己洗車-- and I hope nobody gives you a brand-new car when you are sixteen. 我還希望在你滿十六歲時，沒有人送給你一輛嶄新的轎車。 It will be good if at least one time you can see a baby calf born, 假如你至少有一次機會看見小牛犢出生， and you have a good friend to be with you if you ever have to put your old dog to sleep. 假如你不得不爲你的老狗送終，而此時身邊有一位好友陪伴安慰---那樣該有多好啊！ I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in. 我希望你能爲自己的信仰挺身而出、奮力守護。 I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it is all right to draw a line down the middle of the room, 我希望你能和弟弟共用一間臥室--即使你在臥室中間劃一條分界線也沒關係。 but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he is scared, I hope you'll let him. 可是，當弟弟因爲害怕要爬進你的被窩時，我希望你接納他。 And when you want to see a Disney movie and your kid brother wants to tag along, I hope you take him. 當你要出去看迪斯尼電影，你的小弟弟想做你的小尾巴時，我希望你會樂意帶上他。 I hope you have to walk uphill with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely. 我希望你能和朋友們一起爬山，而在你所生活的城市裏，做這項運動不會有什麼危險。 If you want a slingshot, I hope your father teaches you how to make one instead of buying one. 如果你想要一把彈弓，我希望你父親能教你怎樣自己做一把，而不是爲你買一把現成的。 I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books, and when you learn to use computers, you also learn how to add and subtract in your head. 我還希望你能學會挖泥巴、也學會讀書；而就算你學會了使用電腦，也不放棄學習加減法的心算。 I hope you get razzed by friends when you have your first crush on a girl, and that when you talk back to your mother you learn what Ivory soap tastes like. 當你第一次喜歡上一個女孩時，我希望你會遭受朋友的嘲弄；而當你跟你母親頂嘴時，希望她叫你嘗一嘗肥皂的滋味。 May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on the stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole. 但願你能在爬山時弄破膝蓋上的皮，或者在爐子上燒傷手，或者讓舌頭粘在結冰的旗杆上。 I hope you get sick when someone blows smoke in your face. 我希望吸菸者對着你的臉上噴吐煙霧時，你會感到噁心。 I don't care if you try beer once, but I hope you won't like it. 如果你嘗試喝一次啤酒，我不會在意；但是我希望你不會喜歡上它。 And if a friend offers you a joint or any drugs, I hope you are smart enough to realize that person is not your friend. 如果有一位朋友請你吸一口含大麻的香菸，或者任何毒品，我希望你明智地意識到他不是你的朋友。 I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your grandpa or go fishing with your uncle. 我當然希望你能抽時間來陪爺爺在門廊上坐一坐，或者陪叔叔釣釣魚。 I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through a neighbor's window, 如果你把捧球扔進了鄰居的窗戶，我希望你母親懲罰你。 and that she hugs you and kisses you when you give her a plaster of pared mold of your hand. 如果你能剪掉指甲，用石膏做一隻自己的手的模型送給媽媽，我希望她會回贈你擁抱和親吻。 These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. 我希望你能經歷：艱難的歲月，挫折和失望；希望你努力工作，幸福快樂。 Every minute you decide upon something, you know that's what you want. You know you're going to do it. All of these negatives that have been bothering you, they pick up their baggage and get out. They can't live in any positive mind. You have to move with courage, with faith, with determination. 每次做決定，你都清楚地知道，這就是你想要的。你知道自己要努力實現它。那些曾經讓你心煩意亂的消極的聲音，會悄然溜走，因爲積極的心態容不得它們存在。你要勇往直前，你要心懷信念，你要意志堅定。 University of Massachusetts Amherst: Peace only un 馬薩諸塞大學安姆斯特分校：只在自由之下的和平 英文導讀 Back to its origin The University of Massachusetts Amherst (otherwise known as Massachusetts， UMass， or UMass Amherst) is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst， Massachusetts and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system. The university was founded in 1863 under the provisions of the Federal Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act to provide instruction to Massachusetts citizens in the "agricultural， mechanical， and military arts". The university was initially named the Massachusetts Agricultural College. More information System： The university offers bachelor"s degrees， master"s degrees， and doctoral degrees in 88 undergraduate and 72 graduate areas of study， through nine schools and colleges including：School of Education， College of Engineering， College of Humanities and Fine Arts， Isenberg School of Management， College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics， the Stockbridge School of Agriculture， School of Nursing， School of Public Health and Health Sciences， College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. W.E.B. DuBois library： The W.E.B. DuBois library is the tallest library in the United States and the tallest academic library in the world. It is also well regarded for its innovative architectural design， which incorporates the bookshelves into the structural support of the building.It is home of the memoirs and papers of the distinguished African-American activist and Massachusetts native W. E. B. Du Bois as well as being the depository for other important collections， such as the papers of the late Congressman Silvio O. Conte. The W.E.B. Du Bois Library is well regarded for its innovative architectural design， which incorporates the bookshelves into the structural support of the building. 生詞助讀 provision [prvin] n. 規定；條款 memoir [memwɑ：] n. 回憶錄；自傳 depository [dipzitri] n. 貯藏所；存儲處 中文概述 馬薩諸塞大學建校於1863年，是美國一所著名的研究機構，坐落在美麗富饒的新英格蘭鎮，四周環繞小山、森林、湖泊以及草地，離開波士頓和紐約城只有幾個小時。 馬薩諸塞大學安姆斯特分校是美國著名公立大學系統麻省大學中的一員，也是建校最早的校區。馬薩諸塞大學安姆斯特分校由馬薩諸塞州出資協助，是麻省大學系統中的旗艦分校區，屬於研究型大學，並被授予美國"最佳公立大學"之一。 安姆斯特分校有九個學院，主要包括：教育學院、工程學院、人文和藝術學院、管理學院、自然科學學院、護理學院、公共衛生和健康科學學院、社會和行爲科學學院、農學院。 安姆斯特分校的一大特色是爲本科生提供了直接參與研究的機會，同時也提供服務與志願機會。 威廉·愛得華·伯格哈特·杜波依斯（W.E.B. DuBois）圖書館是美國最高的圖書館，是世界上最高的學術圖書館，也是創新的建築設計的代表作。它將書架併入結構性支架中。這裏收藏着非洲裔美國人和馬薩諸塞州本土政治家的回憶錄。 夢想成功錄 If you are patient in one moment of anger， you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. 忍一時風平浪靜，退一步雨過天晴。 An active man could find a chance from every suffering while a passive man would suffer in every chance. 積極的人在每一次憂患中都看到一個機會，而消極的人則在每個機會中都看到某種憂患。 Iowa State University: Science with practice 愛荷華州立大學：科學與實踐相結合 英文導讀 Back to its origin Iowa State University of Science and Technology， more commonly known as Iowa State University (ISU)， is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames， Iowa， United States. In 1856， the Iowa General Assembly enacted legislation to establish the State Agricultural College and Model Farm. Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm (now Iowa State University) was officially established on March 22， 1858， by the legislature of the State of Iowa. Iowa was the first state in the nation to accept the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1862. Iowa subsequently designated Iowa State as the land-grant college on March 29， 1864. Iowa State is a leader in agriculture， engineering， extension， and home economics， and created the nation"s first state veterinary medicine school in 1879. In 1933， Iowa State established the Statistical Laboratory. It was and is the first research and consulting institute of its kind in the country. On July 4， 1959， the college was officially renamed Iowa State University of Science and Technology. However， the short name "Iowa State University"is used even in official documents. More information System： ISU is organized into eight colleges that offer 100 Bachelors degree programs， 115 Masters programs， 83 Ph.D programs， and one professional degree program in Veterinary Medicine.ISU consists of the following colleges： College of Agriculture and Life Sciences， College of Business， College of Design， College of Engineering， College of Human Sciences， College of Liberal Arts & Sciences， College of Veterinary Medicine.In addition to these seven colleges， the Graduate College oversees graduate study in all fields. VEISHEA： Iowa State celebrated its first VEISHEA in 1922. The name of the festival is an acronym， based on the first letters of Iowa State"s colleges： Veterinary Medicine， Engineering， Industrial Science， Home Economics， and Agriculture. VEISHEA has grown to become the largest student-run festival in the nation. Its traditions includes open houses， a cultural festival， an international food fair， and carnival games for children， etc. 生詞助讀 acronym [krnim] n. 首字母縮略詞 open house 開放參觀日；家庭招待會 carnival [kɑ：nivl] n. 狂歡節；嘉年華 中文概述 愛荷華州立大學建立於1858年，是美國愛荷華州的公立大學，也是一所土地贈與學院，位於該州安姆斯。其全稱爲愛荷華州立科學與技術大學，該校前身爲愛荷華州立農學與機械學院，是一座以莫利爾學院土地贈送法案而創建的大學。 全校共分八所學院，最好的學科除了工程、農科和獸醫學外，商科、設計、教育和傳播學等都很有名氣。目前最突出的學科是工程和農科。近些年，愛荷華州立大學在農業生物科技，植物和動物基因工程，生物信息工程，農產品和市場開發，人類營養，人類電腦功能，生物再利用和食品安全等重要的領域進行了大膽的新的成果轉化研究。愛荷華州立大學以其在科學，工程和農學方面的專業見長，並且是世界上第一臺電子計算機阿塔納索夫-貝瑞計算機的誕生地，也是美國第一所公立獸醫醫院，第一所統計實驗室的的誕生地。 愛荷華州立大學也由於VEISHEA而著名﹐這是一個每年春天在校園內舉辦的娛樂和教育相結合的慶典。其名源自1922年慶典創辦之初的五個學院：獸醫(Veterinary Medicine)，工程(Engineering)，工業科技(Industrial Science)，家庭經濟(Home Economics)，和農學(Agriculture)的首字母組合。其主辦者宣稱這項活動是世界上最大的由學生組織的文化慶典之一。 學校的治安良好、景色優美，學術風格優異，加上該校爲州立的高等學府，因此每年吸引大量來自世界各地的國際學生。 夢想成功錄 If you ride a horse， sit close and tight； if you ride a man， sit easy and light. 騎馬時應緊貼馬背，待人則應平和可親。 If you want to have wealth and happiness， you must know how to handle frustration. 如果你想擁有財富和幸福， 你就必須學會如何處理沮喪！ Miami University, Oxford 邁阿密大學牛津分校：有所成就而不是突出自己 英文導讀 Back to its origin Miami University (informally known as Miami， Miami U， Miami of Ohio， and MU) is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford， Ohio， United States. Founded in 1809， although classes were not held until 1824， it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio， founded four years after Ohio University.The foundations for Miami University were first laid by an Act of Congress signed by President George Washington， stating that an academy should be located Northwest of the Ohio River in the Miami Valley. The Legislature passed "An Act to Establish the Miami University" on February 2， 1809， and a board of trustees was created by the state. The board of trustees closed the school in 1873， and leased the campus for a grammar school.The university re-opened in 1885， having paid all of its debts and repaired many of its buildings； there were forty students in its first year. The Oxford College for Women merged with Miami University in 1928. In 1974， The Western College for Women in Oxford， was sold to Miami； and President Shriver oversaw the creation of the well-respected and innovative Interdisciplinary Studies Program known as the Western College Program. More information System： Miami University has six academic divisions-the College of Arts & Science， the Farmer School of Business， the School of Engineering & Applied Science， the School of Education， Health， & Society， the School of Creative Arts， the School of Inter-disciplinary Studiesand the Graduate School.Note： The College of Arts & Science is the oldest and largest college at Miami， with nearly half of the undergraduate student body enrollment. Miami"s Farmer School of Business is a nationally recognized school of business that offers eight majors. The school also offers graduate MBA， accountancy， and economics degrees. Miami"s School of Creative Arts comprises four departments-architecture and interior design， music， theatre， and art. Each department has its own admission requirements separate from the standard admissions requirements for the University. Western College Program： The Western College Program was created in 1974 when the Western College for Women merged with Miami University. The program consisted of an interdisciplinary living/learning community with small class sizes and student-designed focuses. Majors included Interdisciplinary Studies， Environmental Science， and Environmental Studies. Academics were divided into three core areas： Creativity and Culture， Social Systems， and Natural Systems. 生詞助讀 academy [kdmi] n. 學院；研究院；專科院校 lease [li：s] vt. 出租 accountancy [kauntnsi] n. 會計工作；會計學 中文概述 邁阿密大學牛津分校是美國俄亥俄州的一所州立大學，它成立於1809年，是美國最優秀、最美麗的公立大學之一。邁阿密大學牛津分校本部位於美國俄亥俄州牛津市，同時在俄亥俄州的哈密頓（Hamilton）市和米德爾頓（Middletown）市，以及在歐洲的盧森堡設有三個分校。邁阿密大學牛津分校提供私立大學的教育環境，但只收公立大學的學費。隨着學校的發展，邁阿密大學牛津分校的聲譽不斷提升，在19世紀七八十年代被譽爲"西部耶魯"。 邁阿密大學牛津分校現設有七個院系：文學與科學學院，商學院，教育學院，工程與應用科學學院，藝術學院，跨學科研究生院，研究生院。優勢專業包括：商業、管理、市場營銷、教育、社會學、生物和生物醫學、心理學。自然科學方面，化學、微生物學和植物學都很突出。學校的商學院，強調跨學科的綜合學習和知識的實際運用，注重培養學生的全球性眼光、領導才能和科技應用的能力。 I don't care what it is. I don't care how difficult it is. 我不管你的夢想是什麼，我不管它有多難實現。 I was a new mother and a young rabbi in the spring of 2004 and the world was in shambles. Maybe you remember. Every day, we heard devastating reports from the war in Iraq. There were waves of terror rolling across the globe. It seemed like humanity was spinning out of control. I remember the night that I read about the series of coordinated bombings in the subway system in Madrid, and I got up and I walked over to the crib where my six-month-old baby girl lay sleeping sweetly, and I heard the rhythm of her breath, and I felt this sense of urgency coursing through my body. We were living through a time of tectonic shifts in ideologies, in politics, in religion, in populations. Everything felt so precarious. And I remember thinking, "My God, what kind of world did we bring this child into? And what was I as a mother and a religious leader willing to do about it? 01:14 Of course, I knew it was clear that religion would be a principle battlefield in this rapidly changing landscape, and it was already clear that religion was a significant part of the problem. The question for me was, could religion also be part of the solution? Now, throughout history, people have committed horrible crimes and atrocities in the name of religion. And as we entered the 21st century, it was very clear that religious extremism was once again on the rise. Our studies now show that over the course of the past 15, 20 years, hostilities and religion-related violence have been on the increase all over the world. But we don't even need the studies to prove it, because I ask you, how many of us are surprised today when we hear the stories of a bombing or a shooting, when we later find out that the last word that was uttered before the trigger is pulled or the bomb is detonated is the name of God? It barely raises an eyebrow today when we learn that yet another person has decided to show his love of God by taking the lives of God's children. In America, religious extremism looks like a white, antiabortion Christian extremist walking into Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs and murdering three people. It also looks like a couple inspired by the Islamic State walking into an office party in San Bernardino and killing 14. And even when religion-related extremism does not lead to violence, it is still used as a political wedge issue, cynically leading people to justify the subordination of women, the stigmatization of LGBT people, racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. This ought to concern deeply those of us who care about the future of religion and the future of faith. We need to call this what it is: a great failure of religion. 03:16 But the thing is, this isn't even the only challenge that religion faces today. At the very same time that we need religion to be a strong force against extremism, it is suffering from a second pernicious trend, what I call religious routine-ism. This is when our institutions and our leaders are stuck in a paradigm that is rote and perfunctory, devoid of life, devoid of vision and devoid of soul. 03:46 Let me explain what I mean like this. One of the great blessings of being a rabbi is standing under the chuppah, under the wedding canopy, with a couple, and helping them proclaim publicly and make holy the love that they found for one another. I want to ask you now, though, to think maybe from your own experience or maybe just imagine it about the difference between the intensity of the experience under the wedding canopy, and maybe the experience of the sixth or seventh anniversary. 04:17 And if you're lucky enough to make it 16 or 17 years, if you're like most people, you probably wake up in the morning realizing that you forgot to make a reservation at your favorite restaurant and you forgot so much as a card, and then you just hope and pray that your partner also forgot. 04:33 Well, religious ritual and rites were essentially designed to serve the function of the anniversary, to be a container in which we would hold on to the remnants of that sacred, revelatory encounter that birthed the religion in the first place. The problem is that after a few centuries, the date remains on the calendar, but the love affair is long dead. That's when we find ourselves in endless, mindless repetitions of words that don't mean anything to us, rising and being seated because someone has asked us to, holding onto jealously guarded doctrine that's completely and wildly out of step with our contemporary reality, engaging in perfunctory practice simply because that's the way things have always been done. 05:21 Religion is waning in the United States. Across the board, churches and synagogues and mosques are all complaining about how hard it is to maintain relevance for a generation of young people who seem completely uninterested, not only in the institutions that stand at the heart of our traditions but even in religion itself. And what they need to understand is that there is today a generation of people who are as disgusted by the violence of religious extremism as they are turned off by the lifelessness of religious routine-ism. 06:02 Of course there is a bright spot to this story. Given the crisis of these two concurrent trends in religious life, about 12 or 13 years ago, I set out to try to determine if there was any way that I could reclaim the heart of my own Jewish tradition, to help make it meaningful and purposeful again in a world on fire. I started to wonder, what if we could harness some of the great minds of our generation and think in a bold and robust and imaginative way again about what the next iteration of religious life would look like? Now, we had no money, no space, no game plan, but we did have email. So my friend Melissa and I sat down and we wrote an email which we sent out to a few friends and colleagues. It basically said this: "Before you bail on religion, why don't we come together this Friday night and see what we might make of our own Jewish inheritance?" 07:01 We hoped maybe 20 people would show up. It turned out 135 people came. They were cynics and seekers, atheists and rabbis. Many people said that night that it was the first time that they had a meaningful religious experience in their entire lives. And so I set out to do the only rational thing that someone would do in such a circumstance: I quit my job and tried to build this audacious dream, a reinvented, rethought religious life which we called "IKAR," which means "the essence" or "the heart of the matter." 07:36 Now, IKAR is not alone out there in the religious landscape today. There are Jewish and Christian and Muslim and Catholic religious leaders, many of them women, by the way, who have set out to reclaim the heart of our traditions, who firmly believe that now is the time for religion to be part of the solution. We are going back into our sacred traditions and recognizing that all of our traditions contain the raw material to justify violence and extremism, and also contain the raw material to justify compassion, coexistence and kindness -- that when others choose to read our texts as directives for hate and vengeance, we can choose to read those same texts as directives for love and for forgiveness. 08:25 I have found now in communities as varied as Jewish indie start-ups on the coasts to a woman's mosque, to black churches in New York and in North Carolina, to a holy bus loaded with nuns that traverses this country with a message of justice and peace, that there is a shared religious ethos that is now emerging in the form of revitalized religion in this country. And while the theologies and the practices vary very much between these independent communities, what we can see are some common, consistent threads between them. 09:03 I'm going to share with you four of those commitments now. 09:07 The first is wakefulness. We live in a time today in which we have unprecedented access to information about every global tragedy that happens on every corner of this Earth. Within 12 hours, 20 million people saw that image of Aylan Kurdi's little body washed up on the Turkish shore. We all saw this picture. We saw this picture of a five-year-old child pulled out of the rubble of his building in Aleppo. And once we see these images, we are called to a certain kind of action. 09:42 My tradition tells a story of a traveler who is walking down a road when he sees a beautiful house on fire, and he says, "How can it be that something so beautiful would burn, and nobody seems to even care?" So too we learn that our world is on fire, and it is our job to keep our hearts and our eyes open, and to recognize that it's our responsibility to help put out the flames. 10:08 This is extremely difficult to do. Psychologists tell us that the more we learn about what's broken in our world, the less likely we are to do anything. It's called psychic numbing. We just shut down at a certain point. Well, somewhere along the way, our religious leaders forgot that it's our job to make people uncomfortable. It's our job to wake people up, to pull them out of their apathy and into the anguish, and to insist that we do what we don't want to do and see what we do not want to see. Because we know that social change only happens -- 10:44 when we are awake enough to see that the house is on fire. 10:49 The second principle is hope, and I want to say this about hope. Hope is not naive, and hope is not an opiate. Hope may be the single greatest act of defiance against a politics of pessimism and against a culture of despair. Because what hope does for us is it lifts us out of the container that holds us and constrains us from the outside, and says, "You can dream and think expansively again. That they cannot control in you." 11:21 I saw hope made manifest in an African-American church in the South Side of Chicago this summer, where I brought my little girl, who is now 13 and a few inches taller than me, to hear my friend Rev. Otis Moss preach. That summer, there had already been 3,000 people shot between January and July in Chicago. We went into that church and heard Rev. Moss preach, and after he did, this choir of gorgeous women, 100 women strong, stood up and began to sing. "I need you. You need me. I love you. I need you to survive." And I realized in that moment that this is what religion is supposed to be about. It's supposed to be about giving people back a sense of purpose, a sense of hope, a sense that they and their dreams fundamentally matter in this world that tells them that they don't matter at all. 12:23 The third principle is the principle of mightiness. There's a rabbinic tradition that we are to walk around with two slips of paper in our pockets. One says, "I am but dust and ashes." It's not all about me. I can't control everything, and I cannot do this on my own. The other slip of paper says, "For my sake the world was created." Which is to say it's true that I can't do everything, but I can surely do something. I can forgive. I can love. I can show up. I can protest. I can be a part of this conversation. We even now have a religious ritual, a posture, that holds the paradox between powerlessness and power. In the Jewish community, the only time of year that we prostrate fully to the ground is during the high holy days. It's a sign of total submission. Now in our community, when we get up off the ground, we stand with our hands raised to the heavens, and we say, "I am strong, I am mighty, and I am worthy. I can't do everything, but I can do something." 13:35 In a world that conspires to make us believe that we are invisible and that we are impotent, religious communities and religious ritual can remind us that for whatever amount of time we have here on this Earth, whatever gifts and blessings we were given, whatever resources we have, we can and we must use them to try to make the world a little bit more just and a little bit more loving. 13:59 The fourth and final is interconnectedness. A few years ago, there was a man walking on the beach in Alaska, when he came across a soccer ball that had some Japanese letters written on it. He took a picture of it and posted it up on social media, and a Japanese teenager contacted him. He had lost everything in the tsunami that devastated his country, but he was able to retrieve that soccer ball after it had floated all the way across the Pacific. How small our world has become. It's so hard for us to remember how interconnected we all are as human beings. And yet, we know that it is systems of oppression that benefit the most from the lie of radical individualism. 14:45 Let me tell you how this works. I'm not supposed to care when black youth are harassed by police, because my white-looking Jewish kids probably won't ever get pulled over for the crime of driving while black. Well, not so, because this is also my problem. And guess what? Transphobia and Islamophobia and racism of all forms, those are also all of our problems. And so too is anti-Semitism all of our problems. Because Emma Lazarus was right. 15:19 Emma Lazarus was right when she said until all of us are free, we are none of us free. We are all in this together. And now somewhere at the intersection of these four trends, of wakefulness and hope and mightiness and interconnectedness, there is a burgeoning, multifaith justice movement in this country that is staking a claim on a countertrend, saying that religion can and must be a force for good in the world. 15:47 Our hearts hurt from the failed religion of extremism, and we deserve more than the failed religion of routine-ism. It is time for religious leaders and religious communities to take the lead in the spiritual and cultural shift that this country and the world so desperately needs -- a shift toward love, toward justice, toward equality and toward dignity for all. I believe that our children deserve no less than that. 16:17 Thank you.

介紹的基本都是私立的精英教育，然後是宗教所創辦的大學，其次公立沒幾個。

Here you are.Top100.

纔讀了前幾章便不想繼續讀，倒不是說內容有不正確，而是內容簡略。像是在讀特別簡易版的百度百科內容，整理百所學校，從網上摘錄些段落內容，就成了一本書。

參觀當地大學是旅遊時不可缺少的一部分，遺憾未能走遍美國。這本書讓我遍覽美國名校，簡單明瞭，受益匪淺。

可以收藏，雖然章節安排好像不是按最新排名 一，泛讀後可以有針對性的精讀 二，英文描述很專業，對鞏固詞彙量和撰寫英文個人簡歷有幫助

對美國大學略知皮毛了。是一部不錯的參考工具書。