Admit them, admit them

This Spring saw Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s first in-person convocation since the onset of the pandemic in 2020. It was a gloriously festive event with two ceremonies every day for five days, during which graduands from 2022 as well as the two previous years were able to cross the stage, receive much-deserved congratulations, and savour their success. Few people in attendance can have believed we will see no more of COVID-19, but it was impossible not to notice amongst graduates and their families a very powerful sense of relief, of having emerged from an ordeal 카지노 게임 컬렉션� even if their pandemic experience remained incompletely understood, etched in the memory, and was in that sense still present.

I was reminded of 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Song of a Man Who Has Come Through,카지노 게임 컬렉션� a poem written by D.H. Lawrence in 1914, in which the speaker feels transported by 카지노 게임 컬렉션�a fine wind카지노 게임 컬렉션� blowing the new direction of Time카지노 게임 컬렉션� and longs to be an instrument of transformation and revelation. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�The rock will split,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he writes, and 카지노 게임 컬렉션�we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.카지노 게임 컬렉션� Such was the tangible optimism of our graduates, even in the knowledge that 카지노 게임 컬렉션� as in the Lawrence poem 카지노 게임 컬렉션� the future may bring 카지노 게임 컬렉션�strange angels,카지노 게임 컬렉션� threats as well as promises, grief as well as joy. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Admit them, admit them카지노 게임 컬렉션� is how the poem ends, reminding us that the richness of life inheres in its variety and contradictoriness.

In my comments at convocation, I took note of a recent report suggesting that people the age of our students 카지노 게임 컬렉션�are using the pandemic카지노 게임 컬렉션�s reality shift as an opportunity to make major life changes,카지노 게임 컬렉션�1 to rethink values and behaviours that before the pandemic seemed effectively immutable, and I indicated the university카지노 게임 컬렉션�s profound support for them in their hopes and aspirations for a better world. If the pandemic did indeed strike a blow against the innocent optimism of the young, it nevertheless also imparted a sense of urgency and quickened their desire to have a positive impact in their lives.

Young people are not alone in thinking this way. One of the welcome consequences of the last two years is that human beings everywhere are seeking out the kind of positive experiences that define and validate them as human. Evidence of this is everywhere discernible, not least in the intensity with which we have re-engaged with the arts, discovered a new appreciation for nature, or reached for a deeper and more constructive understanding of our place on this planet.

This issue of the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Alumni Review reflects some of the breadth of that engagement in our university community. Our longstanding commitment to the arts and humanities, as well as to basic and applied science and to the highest standards in professional education: all of this confirms the place of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s as a university for the future, whatever challenges it may bring.

How wonderful that 카지노 게임 컬렉션�admit them, admit them카지노 게임 컬렉션� is Lawrence카지노 게임 컬렉션�s way of encouraging us to embrace the future in all its complexities 카지노 게임 컬렉션� because in my mind those words echo the formula used by the Chancellor at convocation when he 카지노 게임 컬렉션�admits카지노 게임 컬렉션� students to their degrees, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�with all their rights, privileges, and responsibilities.카지노 게임 컬렉션�