Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome provost strom. [applause] good evening. It is my very great pleasure to welcome you to Memorial Church for this years lecture on a Meaningful Life. Honored we are deeply to have as our speaker associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [cheers and applause] this event, as you may know, has a rich history at stanford. Lecture that in a inry rathbun, a professor the 1930s through the 1950s, decided to give on the last day of his class one spring. The lecture was such a success that it turned into an annual tradition at stanford for many years until professor rathbun retired. It was revised in 2008, supported by a generous gift to the office of religious life by the foundation for Global Community which established the henry and Amelia Rathbun fund for exploring what leads to a Meaningful Life. Each year, a rathbun visiting fellow selected to come to stanford to deliver the lecture and spend time with our faculty,
I want to withdraw some consideration for that. juan: i don t think this is fair to harvard. jesse: i will not accept any speaking imitations from harvard as a sign of protest against this decision. i would not want to make the cia director, former cia director angry. juan: mike pompeo says he is not going. jesse: i would not want to be on the bedside of the cia. all of these ivy league institutions do the same thing. they hire these people for p.r. reasons, and it is a p.r. play. juan:n: so they also have robbie who ran hillary s campaign, sean spicer is out there. mary catherine hamm. joe scarborough, he is there. dana: all legitimate people that you can learn something from prior to this decision about chelsea manning was horrific for harvard.ma it was a decision, it s like harvard wantsor to be edgy. oh, look how woke we are. if i haven t chelsea manning. and i think it deserves a bitter cold that it is getting paid and