Chapter 94 Three years of studying in the United States

This should be the sixth paragraph of my autobiography. My "Send to Young Readers" was written during the three years of studying in the United States, but the description is not complete. The touching and interesting things between me and several families, professors, and classmates in the United States are not complete. Not all of them were included in the newsletter. I wrote in "My College Career" that my English teacher, Ms. Baoguisi, loved and cared for me very much.Ms. Bao's father, Pastor Bao, also visited his daughter at Yanda University in Beijing in the early 1920s and visited the famous places in Beijing.We also accompanied him to visit Xishan.He fell ill in Beijing and lived in the Union Hospital, which had just been established at that time.He told us, "I have stayed in hospitals in the United States and Europe, but only Chinese medical staff are the most considerate."

When I arrived in Boston in the eastern part of the United States, I was the only Chinese on the train. At this time, the two old Pastor Bao and his wife met me at the station.I lived in their house before the school started. I remember very clearly that the name of the place was 46 Gunpowder Depot Street, Murtover Township. Powder House Street Medford, Mass. Even my younger brothers remember this address because they send me letters there first.The telephone number for this house is 1146R. The Tsinghua students who came on the same boat as me were taking classes at Harvard University and MIT University. They all came here to visit me, and they all remembered this phone number.They also teased each other, saying that it was to memorize these numbers, and they often said words in their mouths, like reciting the "Lord's Prayer"!

This house belongs to Mrs. Bao's natal family, because there is also an old maid living here, Ms. Bao's aunt, Josephine Wilcox. I also call her Aunt Jo (Aunt Jo) with the Bao family and my nephews. Because old Pastor Bao and his wife and "Aunt Zhou" treated me with the same kindness and consideration as their own children, I lived there very comfortably and freely.There is a female worker and a driver in their family.The female workers are in charge of cooking and cleaning the house, and the driver drives them.This female worker is not meticulous in her work, and she just wipes the desk hastily, which is what I don't like the most.So after breakfast, I washed the plates and cups with Aunt Zhou, and I cleaned up the old Pastor Bao and Aunt Zhou's desk, just like I cleaned up my father's desk at my own home.

Before I went to school, Pastor Bao took me to visit several male and female colleges, and they took me to see many lakes and mountains near Massachusetts. It’s all mentioned in the memorandum, otherwise I have neither my own car nor a guide, how can I visit so many places? In short, during the American period, the Bao family became my home, and they would come to take me back to my "home" during holidays, winter and summer vacations.Pastor Bao also has a summer house on Five Islands in Maine.I have been with them.In the newsletter of "Send to Young Readers", all the place names of "Mertford" or "Wu Island" are written at the end of the article, I was taken by the Bao family.

In addition, there are several American professors who I should be very grateful to.They made some "exceptions" for me things.The scholarship I got from Universidad Universidad was 800 yuan per semester, which only covered tuition, housing, and board expenses, and I had no pocket money; You can get eighty dollars a month.Guoxiu told me that if you are not an official student at Tsinghua University, you can also apply for a semi-official fee at Tsinghua University, and you can receive forty US dollars a month, as long as you have the professors' final examination papers with excellent grades.I listened to her and filled out the application form, but I fell ill after only nine weeks of classes, moved from the school sanatorium to the Sharang sanatorium, and of course I didn't take the final exam, and some of my Professor, but they all wrote excellent test words on the application form, so I got a monthly allowance of forty dollars in a daze!

Professor K (Prof. E. Kendrick) in the 21st newsletter of "Send to Young Readers" is a professor of the Department of Religion at the University of Wisconsin. I have not taken her class, but she traveled to China in the early 1920s. I lived in Yanda Girls' School for a while.Some of our classmates also accompanied her to visit Xishan, and we talked very speculatively.So as soon as I arrived at the University of Granville, she regarded herself as a guardian and took good care of me!I was in the Sharang Sanatorium, and I was always worried about where my medical expenses would come from, and the sanatorium never asked me for it.It was only later that I found out that Professor K took out the scholarship given to me by the University of Wisconsin to pay for it.After I recovered from my illness, I went back to Bao's house, and Professor K took me out of Bao's house to escape the summer heat.She can drive by herself, and took me to the White Mountains in New Hamp-shire. Newsletter 21 to 23 of "Send to Young Readers" is about this period of experience.

The families and professors I had contact with in the United States visited them again when they returned to the United States in 1936, and gave them some Chinese artworks as souvenirs.The professors of the University of Granville hosted a luncheon for us in Tower Court, the largest female dormitory in the University. (Professor K was on vacation in Rome, Italy at that time, and she wrote to invite us to go to Rome, so we stayed in foggy London, the capital of England, where the sun, the moon, and the stars could not be seen, for three weeks, and then arrived in sunny Rome. It happened after I stayed in the United States for three years.) There are more things that should be written about my enthusiastic and lively American classmates.I have already written about their sympathy and care for the sick classmates in foreign countries who have left their hometowns in the No. 9 newsletter of "Send to Young Readers", and their "naughtiness" should also be mentioned here!

I like to be tidy. The words, pictures, and picture frames hanging on the walls of my dormitory room, as well as the table lamps and vases on my desk, are all placed in a certain place. Once someone inadvertently moves them, I will not Corrected loudly.They didn't know when to pay attention.One day I came back from get out of class and found that my house had completely changed!The calligraphy and paintings on the wall were crooked, the photo frames were hung upside down, the desk lamp was placed on the bookshelf, and the vase was hidden under the bed.I opened the door and went out, laughing and yelling in the aisle: "Which naughty person made a mess of my room, come out and admit it!" At this time, the doors of several rooms opened, and they all stretched out their heads and covered their mouths. : This kind of mischievous joke, Chinese students will never do it!

Also, every afternoon after school in the University of Prestige, many male students from Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Boston University came to visit their girlfriends in the yard. At this time, it was like a campus of male and female students, very lively.First, a classmate in the dormitory had a very good boyfriend who came to visit. When the couple came out of the living room downstairs to take a walk by the lake, dozens of glass windows facing the yard were closed, ( The general glass windows in the United States are two windows that are pushed up and down, unlike ours that open outwards or inwards) The girls stretched out their heads and shouted in unison: No!At this time, the male student probably bowed his head and walked away with his girlfriend in embarrassment, but there were also bold and thick-skinned boys who turned around and shouted Yes loudly!So the dozens of girls who stuck out their heads in fright stuck out their tongues again and closed the windows!The person who can make the classmates play such jokes on her must be a very popular classmate.The classmates in the dormitory were not bad to me, but they never joked with me like this, because every time the male classmates came to visit me, there was not only one person, or not the same person.When I was about to graduate, although they knew that Wen Zao was close to me, Wen Zao didn't visit very often, and we were very serious. We walked together in the courtyard and never held hands.The female students laughed and said: "This joke is too 'wild', and it cannot be played against Chinese people."

After I graduated and returned to China, I still corresponded with several good female classmates, and exchanged gifts when we got married. My eldest daughter Wu Bing (1980-81) went to the University of Shawell in the United States, and my youngest daughter Wu Qing (1982- 1983) went to Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States to study as exchange scholars, and there were one or two of my female classmates from the University of Wisconsin to visit them or invite them to their homes for vacation. These my classmates are all around the age of 80, let alone during my three years in the United States! On June 13, 1987, when I was writing "Three Years of Studying in the United States", I wrote some stories with American classmates, but did not write stories between me and Chinese classmates. It is a pity!

When I entered Wellesley Women's University in 1923, there were already several Chinese students there, all undergraduates, including Gui Zhiliang (Department of Science and Engineering), Wang Guoxiu (Department of History), and Xie Wenqiu (Department of Physical Education). Department of Education), Lu Shenyi (Department of Education), and two others who came to the school at the same time as me, they are Li Yuanhong’s daughter, Ms. I can't even remember. University of Wisconsin graduate students do not live on campus; they can find a house in a village outside the campus, which is relatively free.Because I was new from China and unfamiliar with the place, the school specially allowed me to live in the dormitory on campus, and I got to know Wang Guoxiu and the other four people very well.We often get together from individual dormitories on weekends, talk, do laundry together, sew together, and cook Chinese food together in a special dining room with an electric stove, especially during New Year’s Day (of course, Chinese New Year’s Day) , we will have a feast together.But on National Day, we went to Boston to spend the festival with the male and female students of the "Chinese Students Association" there. Most of the Chinese students in Boston are from Tsinghua University. They study in Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, etc. We often have contacts.The school is famous for its scenery. The Chinese male students in Boston often come to visit the school in batches of more than a dozen. When they come, they will find Chinese female tour guides. We will try our best to entertain and explain.After 1925, Wang Guoxiu and others all graduated and left, and this burden fell on me alone, so that on Christmas Eve of that year, at the party in the dormitory, Mrs. U, the dormitory supervisor, gave me a small notebook, It said: "Send this notebook as your record of visiting boyfriends!" The female students couldn't stop laughing! We also organized a "lake club" with Chinese male students in Boston, which can be regarded as an academic organization. Because everyone has different majors, we agreed to go boating and picnic on Weibing Lake once a month. Every time a classmate gave a lecture Specialties, others can ask questions and participate in discussions.I remember that the male students who participated at that time were from Harvard University: Chen Daisun, Shen Zonglian, Shi Zhaosu, Pu Xuesu, Liang Shiqiu; and Yanda’s Qu Shiying.MIT students include Zeng Zhaolun, Gu Yu, Xu Zongsu, etc.Sometimes Chinese students who come to Boston from other places can also participate temporarily. I remember Wenzao came once. In addition, we acted together.Spring of 1925.The male students in Boston were going to play a Chinese play for their American classmates, and they chose to play the role. They said that the female role must be invited to the University of Granville, but none of us wanted to play Cui Yingying.So I proposed to play "The Pipa", with Xie Wenqiu playing Zhao Wuniang, and Xie Wenqiu's best friend, Ms. Qiu from the Boston Conservatory of Music (I forgot her Chinese name) playing the prime minister's daughter. I only care about the costumes and do not participate in the performance. Scarlet fever, I had to fill in the numbers, but fortunately, there were not many lines, so I barely managed to finish the scene! Another time, I remember it was in the spring of 1926 (or autumn of 1925), at the annual meeting of Chinese students studying abroad, I performed a short play written by Xiong Fuxi with Shi Zhaosu and Xu Zongsu (Xiong Foxi was also there at that time. United States), the title and plot of this play have been completely forgotten.Now the playwright and the other two actors are dead, and they can't even ask questions! Supplementary note on June 22, 1987