竺可桢日记>19460124
1月24日 星期四 遵义晨阴 ,家中13° ,校中12° 晚十点半16° ,26。
饵“,阴。
法国(会议)(议会)以社会党领袖古恩为临时主席,代戴高乐。
东北苏军原定02月01日撤尽。
又以交通困难延期。
《中逞友好条约》昨日签订,予华侨以最惠之待遇,中国代表李铁铮。
秦道坚夫妇来。
maag on Babbitt。
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。
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