1988年,福斯特被诊断出罹患乳癌,她决定对大众公开病情和治疗进度。2007年10月12日,福斯特在剑桥镇正式就任哈佛大学校长,在就职演说中,她对大学下了新的定义:“一所大学的精神所在,是它要特别对历史和未来负责--而不单单或仅仅是对现在负责。一所大学关乎学问,影响终生的学问,传承千年的学问,创造未来的学问。”不要总想鱼与熊掌我认为,你们问我生活的意义的时候,是带着指向性的——你们把它看成是高级职业选择中可见、可量度的现象,而不是一种抽象而深不可测的、形而上学的尴尬境地。 In 1988, Foster was diagnosed with breast cancer, she decided to publicize the disease and treatment progress. On October 12, 2007, Foster officially became president of Harvard University in Cambridge. In her inaugural speech, she set a new definition for the university: “The spirit of a university is that it is especially about history and the future Responsible - not solely or solely responsible for the present.A university is about learning, life-long learning, inheritance of the Millennium knowledge, to create the future of learning. ”Do not always think fish and bear paw I think you ask me life , It is pointed - you see it as a measurable, measurable phenomenon in advanced professional choices, not as an abstract and unpredictable metaphysical embarrassment.