But in only a single semester here, I found my love of learning again.” Her Commencement speech is inspired by a Henry David Thoreau quote that has sustained her at Brandeis: “Be not simply good; be ...

Before tourists and traffic, and long before clam shacks and ice cream parlors, 19th century essayist, naturalist and thinker Henry David Thoreau walked Cape Cod’s outer shoreline — marveling ...