我所见到的司徒乔先生

Mr. Situ Qiao as I Knew of

我初次见司徒乔先生，是在半个世纪以前。记得约在一九二三年，我刚到北京的第二年，带着我的那份乡下人模样和一份求知的欲望，和燕京大学的一些学生开始了交往。最熟的是董景天，可说是最早欣赏我的好友之一人。常见的还有张采真、焦菊隐、顾千里、刘潜初、韦丛芜、刘廷蔚等等。当时的燕京大学校址在盔甲厂。一次，在董景天的宿舍里我见到了司徒乔。他穿件蓝卡机布旧风衣，随随便便的，衣襟上留着些油画色彩染上的斑斑点点，样子和塞拉西皇帝有些相通处。这种素朴与当时燕京的环境可不大协调，因为洋大学生是多半穿着洋服的。若习文学，有的还经常把一只手插在大衣襟缝中作成拜伦诗人神气。

I first met Mr. Situ Qiao a good fifty years ago. Along about 1923, the year after I came to Beijing, I remember, with the look of someone from the country, and driven by a keen desire to learn, I began to rub elbows with some Yanjing University students. Among the students there was a Dong Jingtian with whom I got on very well. He was one of the earliest friends to appreciate me, so to speak. The others I often met with were Zhang Caizhen, Jiao Juyin, Gu Qianli, Liu Qianchu, Wei Congwu and so on. I had a chance encounter with Situ Qiao in Dong＇ s dormitory on the campus （Yanjing was then located in Kuijiachang）. He wore an old khaki windbreaker in a casual fashion, its front dabbed with accidents of paints, looking in a way like the late Emperor Selassie of Ethiopia. His simple wear was quite out of tune with the ambience of Yanjing, for in those days most students wore western-style suits. Some of the literature majors would put a hand half inside their overcoat through the joint of the front, striking a posture with the air of the English poet Byron. Some were even more ridiculous, trying to pass off as a poet by equipping themselves with letter paper marked with the words ＂poems by so and so＂ on the margin when they had hardly composed anything at all.