Chapter 20 to preach

In the Tsinghua University in the 1930s, there were two gentlemen who could give lectures superbly without scripts. One was Feng Youlan from the Department of Philosophy, and the other was Chen Daisun from the Department of Economics. When Feng Youlan lectured on "History of Chinese Philosophy", in addition to the students from his own department, students from other departments also came to listen, and a large classroom with more than 100 people was packed to the brim.Mr. Feng stutters a bit, and often he has finished writing a sentence on the blackboard, but he has not finished speaking.

Feng Youlan always rolls his name before each class. His lectures are very popular, and he does not conduct step-by-step logical analysis. Instead, he often tells some stories in the history of philosophy. Everyone is very happy to listen and understand what he said.Therefore, Mr. Feng's lectures can be said to be clear and vivid, and students sometimes don't need to take notes at all. The teachers in the Philosophy Department of Southwest Associated University have their own characteristics: Tang Yongtong is short and fat, with extremely short silver hair, and an expert in Buddhism; Feng Youlan has long black hair, a big beard, long robes and mandarin jackets, and always holds a schoolbag when he is injured. , the book is wrapped with a piece of blue cloth printed with Tai Chi gossip; Feng Wenqian is thin and small, with gray hair that grows to the back of his head, and he really misses a kind old lady.When the three of them walked together, the students jokingly called them a monk, a monk, and a nun.

In 1938, when Qian Zhongshu was about to return to China from the University of Paris, many places scrambled to hire him, but in the end Tsinghua University prevailed and hired talented people.It was Feng Youlan, who was the dean of the Faculty of Arts of Southwest Associated University at the time, who contributed to this matter.Feng Youlan once wrote a letter to Mei Yiqi about this matter, saying in the letter: "Qian Zhongshu sent an air letter saying that he could go to Tsinghua University. But he will be able to leave France in the middle of September, and he must go to Shanghai first, so he is required to be allowed to go to Tsinghua University." I will come to the school at the end of the year. After discussing with the Super League and Fukuda, I plan to invite him to come at the end of November or the second semester of the next school year. My younger brother asked him to obtain a foreign education. This air letter said that he had received a letter, but he has not received it yet. My younger brother may send the letter of appointment soon. Since the foreign ministry, Zhongshan Cultural Center's "Tianxia Monthly" and Shanghai Xitong Public School have offered money elsewhere, we must first confirm the treatment conditions. My younger brother can be with a professor in the name of my brother, with a monthly salary of three Bai, I don't know what the conditions are for hiring Wang Zhuxi and Hua Luogeng? The money and treatment should not be less than these two people..."

Yang Jiang also wrote in "Remembering Qian Zhongshu and the Besieged City": "In 1938, Tsinghua University hired him as a professor. According to a letter from Tsinghua's dean of literature at that time, Feng Youlan, this was an exception, because according to Tsinghua's old rules, When I first returned to China to teach, I was only a lecturer, and the lecturer was promoted to an associate professor, and then to a professor."