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晨七点半起。八点半至校。作函数通。阅lrvi咽Babbitt： man and < His Teaching>（ Teacher J ， Putnam1941，共337 pp。，为其生徒于死后所作纪念文，除其夫人Dora D.Babbitt一传略外，共卅九篇，或长或短，各各不同。余共阅Wm.F.Giese 、Anne Douglas 、Sylvain Levi 、F.J.mather Jr。、Wm.F.maag 、S.P.Sherman 、Rud。Altrocchi 、T.S.El10t 、迪生、H..Taeusch 、L.J.A merci町、Austin Warren 、AlanR.Thompson 、Clara D.Chambrun 、m.S.Goldman 、Theodore Spencer 及Paul E。more十七人所作文，一致认为二十世纪时代之大师，创导Humanism，主张Freewill，信Higher wiU0为人貌厉而实极和蔼，望之如傲慢而实极谦虚，记忆力强。在班上，经史子集中之名句，欧美孔佛，均如数家珍，攻击浪漫派不遗余（力J。对卢骚尤反对。午后晤尊生。
Wm.F.maagJr.Babbitt ， pp.58一邸。“He urged me to exercise regularly & totake sufficient time for sleep。”His favorite admonit10n was that we should reverse thecommon custom， and think more of our duties than of our rights.He preached the aristocracyof character & intellect.The best way to understand a particular per10d of histoηisto steep oneself in the main ideas of the time.He did not leamin order that hemight know ， so much so that he might be and do.The proper study of mankind is manand not botany or philology or metaphysics.He asserted that President El10ts “trainingfor service ， training for power”was not educat10n.Humanismmeant moderat10n ， measure， sound common sense.The Rousseauist lives according to nature ， completely extinguishesthat port10n of himself which sets himapart fromnature一-his reason & will.Byintuit10n ， the “insight into things divine ，”men who are relig10us discemtruths whichthe intellect cannot grasp.Freedomof will is。。.of prima巧importance in his philosophy。Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive ， but to be young was very heaven。25Wordsworths lines about awakening quoted by maag in Babbitt ， p。71。接何植栋、吴文晖寄叔永、元善、梅太太、杨其泳（汇票及底片）、森森、彬彬、宁宁、朱习生、王祉伟、程民德寄章友三、储润科、温甫、宝堃函发各教授（请选举援华会得贴补人选） 寄次仲、大姊、元成函文焕然及其父侨泉先生字条