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关于林徽因和北京的城门楼,最近因为林在宾夕法尼亚大学的补发学位事情又火过一阵。可是看1950年1月4日的竺可桢日记,林徽因是以梁思成太太的身份出现的,并且竺老还在新南院八号粱宅内,偶遇了金岳霖:
尽管梁思成只是1927年在宾夕法尼亚大学获得硕士学位,在哈佛大学也只是学了不到一年的博士课程,就退学了。可是哈佛大学博士毕业的老学长竺可桢还是对梁思成评价甚高,因为老竺也知道,建筑的学位,是普天下所有学位中,最不好拿的了。
然而欣赏归欣赏,关键时候还是屁股决定脑袋。再看1952年8月17日的竺可桢日记,竺还是赞成顶头上司郭沫若和建筑学老前辈庄俊的意见,主张把北京的城门楼给拆了的;
再看同时期费正清的中国五十年回忆录(ChinaBound - A Fifty-year Memoir),对梁氏夫妇尤其是林徽因都评价甚高,称他们为最亲密的朋友,说都是宾大建筑系毕业的建筑史学者。称梁是像小罗斯福和肯尼迪一样含金钥匙出生的贵公子,林则是琴棋书画兴趣广泛无所不精的社交天才。
She was creatively gifted as a writer, a poet, a woman of great aesthetic sensitivety and broad intellectual interests, and socially charming. The household, or any scene she was in, tended to revolve around her.
只是奇怪的很,费正清也在书中提到了老金金岳霖,说他和梁氏夫妇,是一家人:
Their household included Mrs.Liang's mother, a small daughter called Pao-Pao (Precious Thing) and a baby boy, and the Liang house connected with Professor Chin's through his garden. They were a family.
不过这一次,是发生在二十年前(1931-1937)的北总布胡同3号四合院(现为24号院),二十年如一日毗邻而居,不弃不离,能被阅人甚广的老外费正清,都称为是一家人,还是非常少见的。
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