Across the pond: Teaching at University of Cambridge

It's an honor and a privilege to be here on this hallowed ground, and I am having the time of my life.

...Quietly I am leaving,
Just as quietly as I came;
Gently waving my sleeve,
I am not taking away a single cloud.

From "On Leaving Cambridge," composed in 1928, by Xu Zhimo, one of China's foremost poets.

I have been in Cambridge, …