Perhaps that is why the late George Pierson, an official historian of Yale, memorably observed that our university is at once a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends.

也许这就是为什么已故的耶鲁历史学家George Pierson曾表示，“耶鲁不仅是一个传统，也是一个学者团体，更是一个充满友谊的社区。