大学教授的学术生活空间——以蔡元培、胡适与顾颉刚为例

Academic Life Space of University Professors In Republican China

从民国时期蔡元培、胡适及顾颉刚等人的学术经验来看,大学本是为大学教授无忧无虑地钻研“高深学问”而建造的场所,然这一理念并不足以维系大学的存在,毋宁说大学的存在更取决于它能否处理好各种外界的和内部的人际事务。校长与大学教授在落实知识生产计划的同时,始终都在承受大学内外人际事务造成的紧张与压力。人际事务挤掉学术研究的案例时有发生,而那些真正“以学术为业”的教授亦只能在复杂人际事务的重压下艰难地开辟做学问的空间。无疑,正是因为有这类在艰难中仍然坚持求知的真正的大学教授,大学才得以彰显其求知本质和学术品格。

From the academic experiences of the scholars in Republican China,such as Cai Yuan-pei,Hu Shi,and Gu Jie-gang,it can be concluded that university should be a place constructed for scholars to be engaged in research.However,the realistic situation of a university heavily depends on whether it can keep balance between various interper- sonal relationships and affairs inside or outside.Either the chancellor or professors in a u- niversity had to suffer from stress of interpersonal affairs.Nevertheless,based on the per- sistence of professors who commits to academic life,university could survive to maintain its nature of pursuing liberal academy.