竺可桢日记>19390513
5月13日 星期六 晴。(晨)68°744mm。晚78°,744mm。
气象研究所迁北碚。教育(系)学生沈衍忻、汤马伟、阮春芳来,又欧阳祖经来。
晨六点三刻起。八点一刻往西南旅社,则唐撆黄已启行往柳州矣,竟不及一见。途遇黄羽仪,与谈下学期心理教授事,因所请胡毅(胡子竞之子)恐不能,而卢于道因与汪敬熙不睦,有愿来之意也。上午作函数通。下午假寐一小时。前浙大程天放时代之秘书长欧阳祖经来。渠本为江西图书馆馆长,南昌失守前即来桂林,现住宜山。五点回。
晚阅Chapman and His Letters page 441:Elizabeth(C之续弦) has been buying 2nd hand (scroop) of lace at antiquity shops.She gets as much pleasure out of it as picking pursuiting.My notion is this:when you buy something you have the fun.Count that as the whole matter.The numbers of barrels she will leave behind…all such things represent past moments of pleasure of somebody.But to find them,to undo them.to have to decide what shall be done with them…this poisons the thought of them.Page 359-60:If Harvard had made it a rule to keep one man of purely intellectual pursuits - and one of their biggest men,Royce.James.Palmer,- on their Board of Corporation the college would never got into persent shape.
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